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From: hollis@ucf-cs.UUCP (William )
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Subject: Does someone REALLY belive this?
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 19:31:30 EST
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A letter to the editor. "The Orlando Sentinel" Monday, November 5, 1984
Page A-14:

TIME TO USE YOUR BRAINS

THE BRAIN, the most specialized and intricate organ in the body, is
being abused.  We just are not using it any more.  Machines are doing
our thinking for us.

Computers are one of the problems.  They were designed to take the load
of facts and figures off our backs.  Instead, they are practically doing
all the thinking for us.  Television is the other offender.  To a majority
of people, it is their only form of communication.  Sit down, press a button
and it's right there in living color.  No need to talk or think.

Why don't we start calculating what these machines are doing?  If we don't,
we may have scientific and sophisticated equipment with no one knowledgeable
enough to use it.

          Helen Alexander
          Winter Park



Well? Any comments? By the way, Winter Park is a small town north of Orlando,
mostly suburb and 'higher income'.  I personally would like to ask this lady
to multiply two 100X100 matrices together, and see which year she gets them
done....(;->) But seriously folks, are there a lot of people out there that
are machigynists? (I really couldn't think of a word for machine haters...)

Ken Hollis

The above article does not represent the views of me, my friends, or anyone
of rational mind.  I also hope that I have given enough credit to the source
of the article.