I think of myself as an educator rather than an engineer. And it has long seemed to me that, as educators, we should endeavor to bring to the student not only as much information as possible, but we should strive to make that information as accessible as possible, and as inexpensive as possible. The technology of the Internet and the World Wide Web now allows us to virtually give away knowledge! Yet, we don’t, choosing instead to write another conventional text book, and print, sell, and use it in the conventional manner. The “whys” are undoubtedly intricate and many; I offer only a few observations:.
