“Recently a student came to my office with a request. As he sat down he opened his briefcase and took out a small laptop, placed it on the table and booted it up. And as he asked his question and listened to my answer, he was typing away energetically on the keyboard. I don’t know what he was writing: maybe he was taking down what I was saying, maybe he was composing his latest entry on Twitter, maybe he was playing Sudoku – who knows? I was quite intrigued, but said nothing …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 5 June]