Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watarts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watarts!kevyn From: kevyn@watarts.UUCP (K.C-T. [eh?] I am) Newsgroups: net.college,net.flame Subject: Re: Does someone REALLY belive this? Message-ID: <8139@watarts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 11:34:28 EST Article-I.D.: watarts.8139 Posted: Mon Nov 12 11:34:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 07:34:19 EST References: <1668@ucf-cs.UUCP> <382@hoxna.UUCP>, <855@teddy.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 17 > But look at the other side of it. Does it take more skill to program a > computer or to print forms? As the demand for hi-tech equipment increases > the demand for people to design and program this equipment also increases. > This whole process stimulates the economy which we need in any case. If > we stick to the old ways of doing things we become a stagnate culture while > the rest of the world is advancing. "to stand still is to go backward" > Scott Fisher Correction: As the demand for hi-tech equipment increases the demand for people to design and program this equipment DECREASES. Computers will design "better" computers which will design "better" computers... ad infinitum. Ahhhhh!!! Von Neumann strikes again! [ Celibacy is not hereditary ...] ========================================================================= Kevyn Collins-Thompson University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, CANADA !! =========================================================================