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From: kludge@pyr.gatech.EDU (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.edu
Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
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Date: 29 Feb 88 16:49:09 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?)
 
   Yes!  It's by Isaac Asimov, and is collected in one of his short story
volumes (maybe Nightfall and Other Stories?).  This should be required
reading for anybody designing user interfaces.


Scott Dorsey   Kaptain_Kludge
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