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My old friend Patrick Tanguay asked me to write something for E-180 Mag<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(by the people behind the new education platform, E-180<\/a>). I wrote about why books, and textbooks will always matter, even if the interface to books and textbooks might change.\u00c2\u00a0The core of the argument is:<\/p>\n

Books, and textbooks are still at the core of our intellectual lives. Textbooks are the documentation of human knowledge, an encoded record of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcall the things we believe someone should learn about a topic.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 They are in some sense the operating system for society, and even if we start to build better and more effective mechanisms to transmit the contents of books and textbooks, we still need, and always will need, a written record of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that which should be known.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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My old friend Patrick Tanguay asked me to write something for E-180 Mag\u00c2\u00a0(by the people behind the new education platform, E-180). I wrote about why…<\/p>\n