From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T23:41:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 05:44:06PM +0900, benjohn@fysh.org wrote:
> 
> [1] I'd love it if there were knowledge consultants in the world. Just
> like I can go to a shop and have someone assist me in buying clothes,
> I'd like to be able to go to someone and say "I'd like to know about x",
> and they would say "ah perhaps you'd like this, this and this, then",
> and I'd say "yes, those sound good, but this isn't quite right", etc. x
> could be music, or part of biology, or international relations. And then
> I could just drink things up and appreciate everything out there that
> interests me.

That might just be an excellent idea for how to put together the
university of the future -- but I'm not holding my breath.  I rather
suspect university "educations" will continue to be half-baked
checklists of topic overviews presented in the most painful
institutional styles available for quite some time to come.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
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