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From: thom@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie)
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Subject: Re: Against educational fads
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Date: 7 Dec 90 02:24:28 GMT
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 >...
 >No amount of technology will replace the need for human beings (educated 
 >ones, at least) to be able to use the written/printed word as a means of 
 >communicating ideas.  Relying
 >...

 Mcluhan said ,"he didn't know who discovered water but it wasn't fish" He was
 talking about the blindness of society to the technologies of 'print', 
 'writing', 'language', etc. They are all technologies which we adapted to.
 What type of person did you have to become to use 'print'? What type of person
 would you have been if you didn't?

 We 'are' technology.

 Technologically yours,
	Thom Androbot


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