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Article #126Re: The Computer and the Message
From: Philip Machanick
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 18:23
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 1990 18:23
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Col. George L Sicherman commented earlier that: > In the 16th century nobody ever spelled a word wrong. Print created > the demand for uniform spelling, by accelerating people's consumption > of information. Before silent reading, it didn't matter how you > spelled a word, so long as it was intelligible to the reader... In the 16th century, most people were illiterate. If you make a technology more accessible, perhaps some "standard" will drop because it's no longer only used by an elite. However, the overall "standard" of society may potentially be improved. This was true of literacy; it will be interesting to see the impact of computers in this area... Philip Machanick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!apple!limbo!taylor From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: The Computer and the Message Message-ID: <1017@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 19 Jul 90 18:23:51 GMT Sender: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 14 Approved: taylor@Limbo.Intuitive.Com