August 11, 2000
The Wired Campus: Enough Is Enough
My son starts college this fall. On our grand tour, admissions officers and student guides spent substantial time showing off their institution's computer capabilities. Each asserted that his or her college provided better information technology than the competition, and that the comparison should matter to us.
Those administrators and students were making a mistake -- the same one that Yahoo! Internet Life makes when it publishes its "most-wired colleges" rankings. The rankings
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