Subject: Re: "Laggards" of the world, don't panic.
From: Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Date: Sat 29 Jan 2000 - 06:29:52 MET
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 15:29:52 +1000 (EST) From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: "Laggards" of the world, don't panic.
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Bob Leamnson wrote:
> another can," is a quotation that inspires me. So let's let everybody who
> wants to predict the future have a go at it. To start the ball, I'll go to
> Jane Healy and her 1990 book "Endangered Minds." There she quotes a
> line from the much respected Forbes Magazine that said, "In the end it
> is the poor who will be chained to the computer; the rich will get teachers."
we can play some more and ask: But who will be the winner? She does not
seem to say that which matters most.
Btw this is not to say that I believe in automated learning. But if we
have an this/or/that_game, then, as I wondering whether I have a flue or
not, I may play, why not:-)
Ania Lian
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