This weeks Robert X. Cringley is a worthy read. I won’t spoil too much.
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That’s 30 years to become an overnight sensation, 30 years to finally settle into the form most useful to society, 30 years to change the game.
The key word here is “empowerment.” Technologies allow us to overcome limitations of time, distance, and physical capability, but they only empower us when they can be gracefully used by large, productive segments of our society. The telephone was empowering when we all finally got it. Now it is the Internet and digital communications.
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Each new technology is difficult for the older generation and easy for the younger, which explains why I am a PC master but a texting idiot. I’m just too damned old.
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[tags]education, values, reasoning, empowerment, texting, society[/tags]
