On 26 January 2012 00:27, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
"ICT
studies" at school now appears to mean how to send an email and
write a letter in Word. This seems like a very sick joke to me.
Job-training for the digital sweatshop.
Yes indeed.
And yet British politicians fret about why design and technology is
going abroad. I guess American ones might well do the same.
Meanwhile, a dot-comrade of mine, a chap who's doing CompSci at the U
of Missouri, had never heard of Lisp Machines and has never used
anything that isn't a member of the C family. Seems like a sad thing
to me, that.
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