The Web gives and It takes away

Abstract

The Internet has been with us for over a decade so we are starting to have the critical distance to see what elements of historical work it has enabled and what parts it has begun to undermine. The reflection is useful, I think, to give two types of direction. The question: “what are the affinities between what we want to do as historians and the new technology?”suggests how we may take advantage of it. We also need to understand how the technology is taking advantage of us.