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Originally posted by Lebenz
I think that the example that Mike represented at the top of this thread is a glaringly harsh reflection of how lazy and indifferent our population has become. Fat and lazy. That, unfortunately is the USA. It is the by-product of too much cash flowing in the wrong direction, which does little but give us all mind-numbing toys that we call tools. Radios, Stereos, TVs and now Computers and PDAs, that increasingly bring us anything we can think of for very little effort.
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Tracy, your post hit the nail square on the head!! I couldn't have stated my feelings on the topic any differently!
(Slightly off topic)
Working in television, I feel a bit guilty due to the effects that this medium has had on society. (Most of what I do is government distance-learning, public policy or news, though.) Sometimes I wonder how a student thirty years from now would be able to do research on a topic if he didn't have access to any computers. Entire encyclopedias are on CD. WordPerfect corrects spelling, checks for syntax errors, and formats papers automatically. Will anyone
need to know how to write properly anymore??