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Article: Info-Fashions for the New Millennium.(Brief Article)
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- January 1, 2000
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This may sound like science fiction now, but wearable computers...are coming out of the drawing-board stage and into a variety of experimental applications.
In her September 1999 column, "The Bionic Searcher," Reva Basch speculated on the concept of wearable computers. She observed that computers are moving "from portable to wearable, to implanted, to innate, and she compared this progression to one familiar to information professionals: data -> information -> wisdom -> knowledge. As a follow-up to Reva's discussion, I am pleased to introduce this issue's guest columnist, Diane Mizrachi, a reference librarian at Beit Berl College and a student in the Library and ...