Good penmanship, by the way (date: 1988). Do young kids today get to practice their handwriting much?
Good stuff so far:
"By evoking the need for deep conceptual hierarchies, the automatic computer confronts us with a radically new intellectual challenge that has no precedent in our history."
We still do, for now. But I can see the transition coming in one or two people eschewing handwriting for laptops in eachof my classes at the high school level.
"...the subculture of the compulsive programmer, whose ethics prescribe that one silly idea and a month of frantic coding should suffice to make him a life-long millionaire"
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 21.9 ms ] threadGood stuff so far: "By evoking the need for deep conceptual hierarchies, the automatic computer confronts us with a radically new intellectual challenge that has no precedent in our history."
How did he know about us back in 1988?