[nylug-talk] [OT?] Medieval tech support

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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 12:29 -0500, George Bourozikas wrote:
> On Friday 16 February 2007 12:02:17 Ron Guerin wrote:
> > George Bourozikas wrote:
> > > Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU
> >
> > I've been thinking that the problem isn't computers are too hard to
> > use (obviously this is not true since small children take to them
> > easily), but that people are becoming increasingly dysfunctional. 
> > Instead of trying to dumb computers and the rest of us down, it's
> > time for people to raise themselves up, or suffer the consequences of
> > being obsolete. There is going to be a digital divide in the future,
> > but it won't be economic or social.  It's going to be between those
> > who use their brains, and those who won't.
> >
> > - Ron
> 
> I think that it's a little more complex than that.

> I know many smart people, accomplished in their traditional disciplines 
> (doctors, biological scientists, lawyers, academics in the humanities), 
> who are eager to investigate anything except the function of the page 
> up button or - horror of horrors - that the scary looking blue "Fn" 
> buttons on their notebooks.  Hence the hilarious support stories.
> 

Serge Lang, the great 20th century mathematician, mathematical writer,
activist and intellectual of Columbia and Yale fame was said to have
never used a computer during his professorial career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Lang

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