25. “ My guess is about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search,” says [Google’s] Craig Silverstein. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/sunday/main608672.shtml
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28. “ I don’t think I should have to be, or enlist the services of, a medical librarian in order to do a simple search on a literature search engine. PubMed should be an intuitive search engine such as Google…Yes, if I devoted an afternoon or more to learning the system I dare say I would become a proficient, but my question stands – why should I have to? ” Harvard PhD Student Anna Kushnir http://network.nature.com/people/U2929A0EA/blog/2008/03/22/i-am-not-yelling-not-out-loud
33. News Of Paper’s Impending Death is Greatly Exaggerated http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3187/2977150859_ca40753340_o.jpg (…isn’t going to happen) http://www.flickr.com/photos/didmyself/2977150859/
36. “ Bundling songs into long-playing albums lowered the production, marketing, and distribution costs because there were fewer records to make, ship, shelve, categorize, alphabetize, and inventory. As soon as music went digital, we learned that the natural unit of music is the track.”
43. Info/Health Literacy Situation Will Worsen “ Why is PubMed so behind the times? Why? How does it even work? Does it search only the abstract? Does it also search the body of the papers that are available online? Why does it get so massively confused by an author’s initials and last name together, in one search? Why can’t it alert me when papers relevant to my work are published?” Again: Harvard PhD student Anna Kushnir