למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

Authors work hard to write in a book what they think about a topic, and obviously they work harder to make the arguments better than they casually make them in discussions with colleagues. Because some people have been very good at writing out their ideas, we tend to think of the completed book as some kind of more secure and established expression of our ideas than those casual conversations. And so it ought to be. But I think we often tend to forget how most books are made up of a set of passing thoughts that are variously in the process of changing. All this is a mumbling acknowledgement that this book is no canonical document. And by the time it is printed and in your hands, I will be curled in a corner moaning and groaning about all the things I now regret having written here and don't any longer quite believe in the way I have state them and, worse, all the things I wish I had written. Perhaps better to see the book as merely a large and unwieldy chunk of conversation about the topics it considers. (p. 183)

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