A recent Washington Post article comments on concerns for the ephemeral nature of “knowledge” (I would call it information) distributed as web pages. The article laments the increasing use of the outlet by the scholarly community and the negative side of offering information that may not be available in the future.
A realistic concern I suppose. However, I would also suggest that the rapidly accelerating costs of scholarly publications has also made it impossible for many college/univerity libraries to maintain present collections. In addition, the proliferation of scholarly publications makes it unrealistic that immediate access in paper form will be possible again.
I guess the general concern involves the difficulty in following the chain of logic authors use because access to reference material is becoming increasingly unreliable (or impractical) for many reasons.
