Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!kevin From: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Re: Computer Science in High School Message-ID: <161@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 15:04:25 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.161 Posted: Thu Jan 3 15:04:25 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 01:41:18 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP> <705@ames.UUCP> <194@uthub.UUCP> <754@gloria.UUCP> <233@harvard.ARPA> <> Reply-To: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders) Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 23 Xref: watmath net.college:606 net.cse:297 Summary: >> 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. Just in case anyone wants to read the classic argument for this position, try _The Gutenberg Galaxy_ by Marshall McLuhan. The thread of the argument is difficult to follow--hell, it's not a thread, it's a *fabric*--but you can certainly draw some interesting conclusions about probable future events by extending McLuhan's logic. The basic point of the book is one that everyone should agree with: in order to rationally chart our future course, we have to understand the effects of commmunications technology on the way individuals think and interact in society. Kevin Eric Saunders lasspvax.kevin@cornell.arpa