The class will break into 4 groups, as follows. Consider the second letter
of your last name. If it is A-G, you are in Group 1. If H-M, you are
in Group 2. If N-S, you are in Group 3. If T-Z, you are in Group 4.
Now, Group n should tackle questions whose number mod 4 is their
number. Thus, Group 1 will handle questions 1, 5, 9. (Slight adjustment
may be made in the groups for hashing nonuniformities, etc.)
Think about your group's debate topics, since people involved in
that discussion group must discuss them (either pro or con).
After your group has a discussion on its 3 topics totalling
about 45 minutes, work together to
send an email summary to the instructor, that has the name of each person
in the group, and gives the consensus viewpoint on each of your 3 topics.
- Technology will cause the demise of print publishers, because
they will be unable to prevent theft and widespread distribution of
electronic forms of their publications.
- People won't take computers to the beach or put them on their
night tables or spread them out to read the comics, since books and other
print forms are much cheaper, friendlier, lighter, easier to use in a
variety of lighting situations, and cover a larger surface area.
- ACM should allow electronic submissions for all of its
publications to be made according to authors' wishes, and should ignore
issues of standardization.
- Electronic publication should be funded by a system of
subscriptions, so users are encouraged to make use of published
materials that are covered by any of their subscriptions.
- ACM should not call for proposals but should instead carry out an
ambitious electronic publishing effort in-house, that should rapidly break
even financially.
- There are too many electronic publishing forms and standards,
and too little user-oriented access software, to motivate people to buy
into the new technology.
- Copyright is a useless concept for digital libraries because
publishers will control and charge for access to and use of digital works.
- Given the federal government's role in NSFNET and the NREN,
ubiquitous networking seems imminent, and means that there will be
national networked access to future digital libraries.
One result will be
serious problems with international copyright violation due to the ease of
transmission.
- Derivative works will be commonplace, and primary publishers
will suffer greatly from those who have shaped and combined prior
work in such a way as to abandon giving credit to original sources.
- Copyright law cannot hope to deal with classifying works by
media type,
given that multimedia publications will become widely used.
- Storage hierarchies, with personal, departmental, campus, state,
regional, national, and international levels, will operate with multiple
copies of each work available, in places chosen to optimize performance.
- With highly linked collections of materials like hypertexts and
their search trails, whose raw materials originated from numerous
sources, copyright protection and remuneration should go to the new
editor, and not to the original authors.