Klarinet Archive - Posting 000384.txt from 1999/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Store closings
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 23:01:18 -0500

At 10:21 AM 3/5/99 -0700, Richard Bush wrote:
>The introduction, gradual acceptance and use of home computers is, without
>arguament, creating a greater casm and distance betweeen the "haves" and the
>"have nots." This issue is bothering lots of people. The social and economic
>implications are, as you said, "staggering." Getting a job now not only
>requires literacy, and maybe writing and comunicative skills, but it now
>also requires computer literacy, the ability to work these little devils.
>(Oh, let us not forget that good, old fashioned skill of being able to type,
>one of the holdovers from the last generation.)
>
Unfortunately, literacy seems to be dropping, particularly among the
"have-nots." But typing, now called "keyboarding," is being taught in
schools. I'm sure glad I took typing when I was in high school. It was
needed for college, but is now absolutely critical for computing!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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