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gwangung@u.washington.edu (R. Tang) wrote:
>In article <40oubi$5kr@sundog.tiac.net>,
>Jim Williams  <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>>Your analysis is seriously flawed here.  The computer is not like a car.
>>A car replaces physical work, a computer replaces mental work -- and the
>>computer is replacing more mental work every year.  The user who doesn't
>>care how their computer does what it does will end up being replaced by
>>the computer.  
>
>	Oh, PLEASE.
>
>	The computer replaces REPETITIVE NON-CREATIVE mental work. It 
>frees a person to do their job.

Too busy reading the latest rag to keep up with basic research?  Nose
keep to the gridstone by your boss so that you don't have time to look
about at the changes over the last 20 years?

It isn't just "repetitive" work anymore.  Check out some expert
programming.  It will be a while before the computer makes inroads
into creative endevour -- at least as an independent entity, but
make it there the computer shall.


>
>>Therefore I care very much what is going on inside my
>>computer.  I want the computer to be my friend, not my owner, nor my
>>replacement.
>
>	Ah, admiting, you don't creative work, hm?

I don't expect to have trouble finding work anytime soon. I have
at least kept an eye on the research. I have payed attention to what's
been happening.  I do know how a computer thinks, and quite a bit about
how a computer could think.

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