The Unconventional Wisdom Electronic book readers may all be dead in the water, but that doesn't mean that electronic books are all wet.
Isn't all our wisdom electronic now?
Log on, and you are barraged with arguments about the privacy of electronic records, the wisdom of keeping the Internet tax free, the national security implications of super-encrypted messaging that can protect your credit card data or be exploited by international terrorists.
During the couple of hours that we spend together at his apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the ambient musician and electronic luthier couches sage wisdom in good-natured shit talk.
By contrast, follow the electronic markets that employ the wisdom of the crowd, such as www.intrade.com, whose track record predicting election outcomes far surpasses that of any of the aforementioned sources.
But many, especially physicians in small offices, doubt the wisdom of switching to electronic health records, given their cost and complexity.
"There is no totally received wisdom about how to cite electronic sources," said Ms. Halvorson, the press's editorial director for reference books.
But during the 1990's, researchers, building on earlier studies of the behavior of light in crystals and knowledge of how electronic semiconductors work, concluded that the conventional wisdom might be incomplete.
For me the chatter of electronic media is more like the conventional wisdom.
Last year, they released an album titled "Kid A," an eerily comforting blend of rock riffs, jazz chords, classical textures, and electronic noise, which, in a demolition of conventional wisdom, went to No. 1 on the Billboard chart.
