Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!enmasse!mroddy From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Re: Computer Science in High School Message-ID: <252@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 22:49:20 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.252 Posted: Sun Dec 30 22:49:20 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jan-85 00:53:21 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP>, <705@ames.UUCP> <194@uthub.UUCP> <754@gloria.UUCP> <233@harvard.ARPA> Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.college:599 net.cse:295 > > I agree. If computers are going to replace books, we should be teaching not > > prose style but computer graphics. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman > > Yes, and we should speak in (bitmap) pictures not words, and we should > burn Shakespeare and digitize Picasso. Well seriously, we are at the start of a transition in communications technology. It wasn't very long ago that European culture was transformed by the printing press, there were undoubtedly people who argued against the introduction of that machine. In fact, we seem to have entirely lost our oral literary tradition, except perhaps for jokes. Perhaps our ancestors should have struggled against the introduction of writting altogether. Give the kids computers.