Re: ATM Complete Computerized CCD telescope resources?

[Chris Westland <westland@uxmail.ust.hk>]

Mel Bartels wrote:

> 
> I think we are entering an era where material is going to be present in
> a number of forms, including books, magazines, webpages, and experts
> available online....
> a much faster paced, different world, and I have benefited from it,
> especially the experts on the atm list who have repeatedly taken the
> time to explain, instruct, and debunk the current hot topics.  The key
> now that we can all be web publishers, is to separate the information
> that can be relied on from the information that is plain wrong or just
> heresay.  Groups like the atm list are valuable filters for this
> purpose.
> 

Important assertions (IMO)and ones with implications beyond this list. 
Eli Noam at Columbia has promoted exactly these ideas for years.  It
seems though that asserions of the demise of traditional publishing
outlets are still regarded as "fringe" ideas by the big money. 

I think the demise of books, etc. will be airly rapid once portable,
book quality resolution displays are economically available (sort of
like the old Apple Knowledge Navigator prototypes). 

-c