Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Book burning: 1930s * 2009

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced plans to phase out school textbooks in favor of digital learning aids as the state looks to plug its massive budget hole.
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This is book burning. Getting rid of archival material. Once the books are gone, then they can rewrite history at the push of a button and there will be no archives to refer to , because they will be digital, too. Once California does this, the rest of the nation will follow.

It's digital book burning and Orwell's 1984 has yet another correct hit.