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> > 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.