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From: kevin@lasspvax.UUCP (Kevin Saunders)
Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse
Subject: Re: Re: Computer Science in High School
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 15:04:25 EST
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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