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Re: Apple?

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From: Jim Williams
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 17:37
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gwangung@u.washington.edu (R. Tang) wrote:
>
>	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.
>

Education may have to wait for nanotech before you are replaced.  Both
arts and administration are being explored as areas where the computer
might soon be able to perform "to economically acceptable levels,"
(depending upon the art -- it will be quite a while before the computer
will put on an acceptable stage performance of Hamlet.).

-- 
Jim Williams.

Find a Linux/GNU User Group near you: 
http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/
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Date: 16 Aug 1995 17:37:04 GMT
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