http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/authors/jim-smith/ Recent content in Jim Smith on Ariadne Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/1/jim/ Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/1/jim/ For most of us, whether researchers, academics, information professionals, or even curious members of the public, the Internet appears to hold out incredible promise: all the knowledge of the world lies in wait for us, if only we know where to look. At our fingertips awaits a bounty of information, the wisdom of the globe, the tree of knowledge. The vision is misleading, a phantom that (unfortunately) may never possess substance.