Here is another one of the fun bridge personalities, Wilbur Poole.
It seems like Wilbur and I are always crossing paths. Today, the
multi-talented Wilbur, who in times past has worked as an iron worker
and hydraulic pump controller, today was a forklift operator. He offered
to lift my car - but I declined.
As many of you know - Google and the Internet are flattening the world of
relationships.
By flattening, I mean that hierarchies are disappearing with reckless
abandon. In the business and university world, many managers are
finding that their communication function is being
displaced by the Internet and their consultative function is being displaced
by Google and Internet-accessible resources.
For me, Google and the Internet
also extends my memory. If I want to find something that
I infrequently use, then I visit Google for "remembering".
There is no Internet forgetting as long as the web page is accessible.
So, here is my assignment for you. Using the Google search box above,
locate all the references to Wilbur on my web pages.
I am hypothesizing that if I can't remember them then
you probably don't remember them easier. This way, you also can experience
both an episode of what I call Internet-centric learning as wall as
discover the role of Google as a memory extension.