[Leica] Digital academia

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> "It will be interesting to see how long this cherished prejudice by the
> 
> academic community and writers against digital is allowed to continue."
> 
> 
> Where did Luggers get the idea that the academic community is against
> digital. I've been using digital storage since before the days of the 
> floppy
> disc (IBM cards, 8" discs, 5 1/4" discs 3.5" discs, 2" discs, hard discs,
> CDs, DVDs, SS cards, etc.). Most professional academic journals require
> papers (an anachronism) to be submitted via the internet. Art shows require
> paintings to be juried on CDs. The internet itself was invented, via ARPA,
> so that academic institutions could communicate electronically on 
> government
> related projects. Indeed, I was there at the invention of the pre-internet
> (but not Al Gore) and if me and my colleagues has patented some of our
> ideas, I would be writing this from my yacht anchored off Monte Carlo. Who
> knew? My main objection to digital is that you can't read a CD in the
> bathroom.
> 
> Larry Z
> 

I was referring to photography teachers.
And " allowed to continue." was  a poor choose of phrase to have been used
as It has implications sounding dumbly conspiratorial.
"run its course" would have been closer to home.

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Mark William Rabiner