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The Social Life of Legal Information
by Jeremy at 8:10 pm EDT, Aug 20, 2002

Some ["digital champions"] have difficulty realizing that the battle for which they have fought has essentially been won.
Education is being radically and irreversibly transformed with the help of digital technologies. We cannot, nor should we want to go back. The only significant question is how do we go forward.
... We need less cheerleading and more constructive critique.

Change has been pushed too heavily from the narrow perspective of information and its delivery. This perspective almost inevitably leaves out questions of learning, meaning, interpretation, communication, and community that are central to understanding both change and inertia.

The Internet is asking you a Question, and it is not: TCP or UDP?

An updated version of this article, by Paul Duguid, co-author of _The Social Life of Information_, will appear in the September issue of First Monday.