Emile comments on The innovation tree, overshadowed in the innovation forest - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 25 February 2014 10:37:49PM 3 points [-]

... and it has transformed education.

I find it a bit hard to imagine how people learned things before Wikipedia and Stack Exchange and Google.

Comment author: CellBioGuy 26 February 2014 12:44:24AM 4 points [-]

And yet they did. As such these things are less tranformative than you think.

Comment author: Lumifer 26 February 2014 01:02:56AM 5 points [-]

... and it has transformed education.

No, it did not. Go visit a high school or a college.

Learning became much easier. Education didn't change much. Yet.

Comment author: ChristianKl 28 February 2014 12:23:37PM 2 points [-]

No, it did not. Go visit a high school or a college.

Even when the teachers heavily resists innovation Wikipedia still gets used by the students.