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In article <40snn5$m2o@sundog.tiac.net>,
Jim Williams  <williams@tiac.net> wrote:
>gwangung@u.washington.edu (R. Tang) wrote:
>>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?

	Busy doing my job? Yup. What does that say about you?

>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.

	Balderdash. Not in my fields (arts, administration, education). 
Computers are a means to an end, not an end in and of themselves. Tools 
that take minimal upkeep will win out over tools that need more. Wish 
more computer jockeys understood this.


-- 
Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu, Artistic Director  PC Theatre

	The most unAmerican thing you can say is "He/she makes too much money."