On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Ed Goertzen wrote:
> I don't know how many readers participated in the birth of the computer
> era, but some may recall the part played by the old Vic 20 and the Commodor
> 64 with it's 1540 disk drive. Many a current geelk executive got their
> start in computers because the
Hi All:
The debate on the above subject is interesting and prompts me to share two
quotes from J. Bronowsky with the 'future-work' list as follows.
"Man survived the firece test of the ice ages because he has the
flexability of mind to recognise inventions and to turn them into community
propert
A few veterans of this list will remember me trying to get a book club
started. I suggested reading David Noble's Progress Without People: In
Defense of Luddism. Noble argues that luddites smashed machines because
their children were starving. Would you do likewise? I heard a women on
T.V. last ni
The following book review presents another view (and saves me a helluva
lot of typing!).
Brian McAndrews
Computer Power and Human Reason
by Joseph Weizenbaum
San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman
1976
REVIEWED BY: Amy
What it's like down on the e-farm...
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/technology/html98/amaz_19991125.html
