A Hard Rain's AGonna Fall

The June issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education showcased as its cover story the blaring headlines, ���Should the Internet Be Scrapped?��� Did this surprise anyone? If it did, you must not have been paying attention. Over the last decade, the Internet, the Web���yes, yes, I know the terms are technically not synonymous but have become so in usage���has become increasingly useless as a scholarly tool. The CHE story discussed the obvious problems: spam, viruses, unreliable connections, not to mention unreliable information, disinformation and even misinformation.