Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ucf-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!duke!ucf-cs!hollis From: hollis@ucf-cs.UUCP (William ) Newsgroups: net.college,net.flame Subject: Does someone REALLY belive this? Message-ID: <1668@ucf-cs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 19:31:30 EST Article-I.D.: ucf-cs.1668 Posted: Mon Nov 5 19:31:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Nov-84 00:54:33 EST Organization: UCF, Orlando, FL Lines: 40 Xref: genrad net.college:381 net.flame:7151 [] 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.