This video has been making the rounds, but that's because it's worth it. A medieval help desk assists a scholar with a new communications device:
I love the line about the scroll.
The best movie about training technology.
UPDATED: here's another link, http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=22065 . Thank you, wifey.
Yes, this is very cool. Liz K-W shared it with me last Thursday when I spoke at Longwood. I loved it, of course.
I'm reminded of C. S. Lewis's observation in "De Descriptione Temporum" that the invention of the codex (and hence page numbers) enabled precise scholarship.
Posted by: Gardner | February 20, 2007 at 14:18
Bryan,
It's gone. "Removed by owner" YouTube says. Sheer vandalism. The owner has no right to remove this having whetted our appetites! I demand to be able to find it from a Google cache of YouTube!
I'm horrified, stunned, and generally GOBSMACKED!
Mark McPearson
Posted by: The F.N | February 22, 2007 at 10:39
Saw that too, alas and alack. Well, time to hunt up YouTube for more copies.
Gobsmacked is one of the great words of all time.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | February 23, 2007 at 11:33
Ceredwyn just found another link, which I added as an update to this post.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | February 23, 2007 at 14:50
Hooray!
Posted by: Tanya | February 23, 2007 at 17:49