Ray,
I've been lurking on future-work for years, and love and often agree with
your thought provoking and passionate posts. In regards to this one,
though, I would like to point our that there is no such thing as a "typical
16 year old adolescent", any more than there is such thing as a typical
southerner, African-American, or Mainer. Prejudice against young people,
and its expression, seems to be acceptable even among "sophisticated"
persons but should be no more so than prejudice against any group of people.
A good consciousness raising book on the topic of adolescent prejudice, and
its destructive results, is Scapegoat Generation- America's War on
Adolescents, by Mike Males, 1996, Common Courage Press.
Tom Karnofsky
Sounds like your
>typical 16 year old adolescent. Any parent who has gone through
>that should be willing to grow up themselves or quit complaining when
>their kid explains the world to them. Whether it is my kid or the local
>minister, rabbi, mulah,
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>"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote:
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>> Brian McAndrews wrote:
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>> > The following book review presents another view (and saves me a
helluva
>> > lot of typing!).
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>> > Brian McAndrews
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>> > Computer Power and Human Reason
>> > by Joseph Weizenbaum
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>> > San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman
>> > 1976
>> [snip]
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>> In my opinion, _Computer Power and Human Reason_ remains a
>> challenge to our technistic way of thinking. It is as
>> relevant today as when it was written. The review
>> snipped here doesn't really do the book justice.
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>> As far as WTO is concerned, Weisenbaum wrote in the
>> book that:
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>> By coming along in the nick of time to process
>> data the way clerks were used to processing
>> it, but when the *quantity* of data exceeded
>> clerical capacity, the computer enabled the
>> existing bureaucratic structures of society
>> to survive when otherwise they would have
>> either collapsed or been transformed. --If by
>> "revolution" one understands a change in the
>> social relations between persons -- the
>> computer has been
>> ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL FORCES FOR SOCIAL
>> REACTION IN THE 20TH CENTURY.
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>> His chapter on "incomprehensible programs" and their
>> social impact is highly admonitory.
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>> His ending shows the difference between
>> judgment and calculation:
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>> I hope that, as the discipline of computer
>> science will mature also, so that, whatever
>> computer scientists do, THEY WILL THINK ABOUT
>> IT, SO THAT THOSE WHO COME AFTER US SHALL NOT
>> WISH WE HAD NOT DONE IT.
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>> This is an excellent, and highly readable
>> book, both for lay persons and for techies.
>>
>> \brad mccormick
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>> --
>> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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>> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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