Thursday, January 18, 2007

Hyperlink, Dreyfus

I found this chapter of Dreyfus very interesting because humans don't realize how much we take for granted and don't realize. It is difficult for a computer to take on human characteristics of looking at relevance. on the internet everything is related in one way or another to everything else so how can a computer sort out what is relevant to you when they don't know what you are thinking and what exactly they are looking for. The internet is useful because it has so much information available on any subject you could think of being interested in. However it is very hard to sort out all of the possible links by searching with just key words. there are many relevant sites that you don't come across when looking on the net because the computer can't tell that they are relevant. only you know what you are looking for. For some people using the library is easier because they can go in and search for exactly what they are looking for and not have to sort through the information that isn't really relevant. It just isn't as user friendly because you have to find each source and then pull them off the shelf and read through it to see if it was what you were looking for. it is very time consuming to the use the library.

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