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[–] cdglow ago 

Regarding Google's initiative, beyond the nefarious aspects of it, I think society probably needs to look slightly differently at the concept of plagiarism in CURRENT_YEAR when technology enables nearly the sum total of human knowledge to be available instantly. This is nothing new: technology has brought forth a lot of changes in education.

  • Aren't math courses taught differently in CURRENT_YEAR than they were 100 years ago before pocket calculators were commonplace?
  • Aren't "penmanship" classes essentially obsolete with the written word no longer nearly as important?
  • Aren't typing classes basically obsolete now that everybody grows up typing?

For example, aren't there already maybe 100,000,000 High School papers about Abraham Lincoln written in the last century? Does it make sense to use technology to ensure that the #100,000,001 paper on him is unique? It seems like a waste of effort as there's only so many ways you can reword the same basic facts over and over again.

I'm not sure that I have an actual answer here, but this feels like a waste of technology, and I'd suspect that part of the real reason is the dumbing down towards the least common denominator. Many niggers and spics probably copy shit verbatim (when they bother to do an assignment at all) so every part of society has to change to accommodate their presence.