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From: wgbh@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (WGBH-TV  )
Newsgroups: ne.wanted,misc.misc,comp.misc,comp.music
Subject: PBS seeks inspiring personal computer user
Keywords: personal computing, PBS, WGBH, applications, articulate
Message-ID: <5323@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 91 22:11:18 GMT
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Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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WANTED:  A person who uses a desktop computer in a way that is integral 
to his or her work.  We're thinking, for example, about someone who is an 
architect with terrific ideas, but can't draw.  Without a computer, someone 
like that is excluded from the profession.  The computer not only opens up 
the profession to this person, but allows him or her to be more creative, by 
experimenting easily with ideas at low cost.  We are open to any profession 
anywhere in the United States; a machine-shop worker; a philosopher; a 
car salesman; a farmer, etcetera.

QUALITIES:  Gregarious, well-spoken, friendly, easy-going, credible, willing 
to put up with a camera crew for an entire day without getting bent out of 
shape.

WHY:  We are trying to prove to the uninitiated, to the people who have 
never worked with a computer, that it can be a tool that empowers people 
to work in exciting ways that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.   This 
person has to be very convincing on that score.

WHO WE ARE:  WGBH and the BBC are co-producing a six-part series on the 
history and impact of the computer.  The series will air on PBS here, the 
BBC in England, and NDR in West Germany next October.

Please send responses to :
wgbh@media-lab.media.mit.edu 
subject heading "user search."  Thanks!


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