DIGITAL FACTS (NOT)
There are facts and there are facts. Or, as the Kellyanne Conway would have said, ‘alternative facts.’ Oh no, wait, she did actually specifically state that there were such things as alternative facts.) And there are words and there are words, as Lewis Carroll pointed out in his book Alice in Wonderland. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” These are all thoughts that came immediately to mind when I read a list (on the internet, of course) that purported to identify ‘Ten facts about digital’. I say ‘purported’ because if you google the phrase and discover the particular list I ran across, you will discover that several of the ten…