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From: cm@unc.UUCP (Chuck Mosher)
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Subject: Re: Technology, Literature, Engineers, and Scientists
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Date: Tue, 21-May-85 07:50:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 21 07:50:23 1985
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In article <uwmacc.1106> susie@uwmacc.UUCP (sue brunkow) writes:
>>can take a course called "Poetry for Engineers" that uses some real
>>*garbage* as texts.
>
>Are you talking about 'Technology in Literature'? This was a class
>in the General Engineering Dept. which I took 9 years ago. Some 
>of the books which I remember reading include: All Quiet on the
>Western Front, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (a poem by
>T. S. Eliot), The Machine Stops (a short story by E. M. Forster),
>and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Manitainance.
>   Maybe the last one qualifies as 'junk', but the rest of these
>certainly don't!

Are you kidding?!  I can't think of a more appropriate book for a
"Technology in Literature" course.  You could not have possibly
read the book to make such a statement.

>   Now, I have a question for everybody:
>   If you were designing a course, for technological people,
>covering different views of technology and its impact
>on society;  which books, stories, or music
>etc would you include?
>

As a starter, ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTANANCE!
I read the book as a freshman in college (when the book came out) and
was blown away by it.  I am re-reading it now and getting even more out
of it.  By the way, if you judge books by their titles, you will really
miss on this one.  It has a little to do with Zen, less to do with 
motorcycle maintanance, and a whole lot to do with trying to bridge the
gap between Art and Science.  A *must* read, especially for all us
technophiles!

>
>                           Sue Brunkow
>                     University of Wisconsin
>              {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!susie

		 	   Chuck Mosher
		     University of North Carolina
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