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From: kmgopinathan@violet.waterloo.edu (Krishna Gopinathan)
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Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
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Date: 25 Feb 88 23:22:25 GMT
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In article <4667@ecsvax.UUCP> hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes:

>"The Feeling of Power" is an old SF story (50's or earlier?) about a man
>who re-discovered how to do arithmetic in a society which had become
>completely dependent on its machines.  (Does anyone else remember this one-
>and remember the author?)

Isaac Asimov was the author of that story.  However, it is interesting that
in his Robots of Dawn/Robots and Empire series, he does not portray the future
of mankind as being excessively machine-dependent.  He brings the story
around to show a possible dead-end that might occur due to an overabundance
of robots (Spacer society), but expresses a (misplaced?) confidence in man
not to fall into that trap.

>--henry schaffer  n c state univ

-- krishna