Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Velcro Closings (and digitial watches) Message-ID: <594@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 17:48:24 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.594 Posted: Wed Dec 26 17:48:24 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 02:36:35 EST References: <755@watdcsu.UUCP> <1462@ihuxl.UUCP> <203@harvard.ARPA> Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 16 > > <> > > Velcro closings will do the same thing to shoe tieing skills that > > digital watches did to time-telling. > > I don't know anyone that can't tell time on a regular clock (not > counting 1-year-olds), do you? And if all clocks were digital (some time > in the future), why would anyone need to tell time? I know a 9-year-old who can't tell time *precisely* because of digital timepieces; if there is not one around, he'll look until he finds one. This is kind of sad, I think... -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois "The other kids tease be. They call be dubby. I'd dot a dubby, ab I?"