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Isn't this foie gras for the digital age.... "dumb animals..force fed food" -> "dumb terminals..force fed textbooks" |
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turbot? I don't like fish. |
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that's a brilliant idea. why didn't we think of this
before? criminal. |
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aha, so this is how Skynet got started.. |
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[fischerman] can I have that sarcasm extra
drippy please? |
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Ok, I'll try being a better person, it's not a bad idea, subject to a proviso. When they leave college they might not have the same access, so a "you can use this 75% of the time" system so people still get to work on their research skills. |
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And...this is probably not a very useful point, but when I was trawling through books in my student days, I often found interesting, but completely irrelevant at the time, material. For example, Das Kapital is very boring as an economics book, but a very readable book on the development of mass production techniques (check out the underprice bread makers, or how to get people to work for you, even when they are asleep). So, if people can just get the program to dive in there, then isn't that potentially a bit of loss? <suspects self of luddism, goes away worried> |
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[not_morrison_rm] No need for a 75% system, because no
need to acquire research skills. Their future employers will
be using Watson, rather than employing expensive, college-
educated labor. The references to Marx and Ludd are very
apposite: why
pay craftsmen to manufacture widgets, when you can
automate, and hire unskilled laborers at lower wages (or pay
lower wages to the same employees, since they're now
competing for the job with unskilled laborers). |
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fair dinkum, until the Watsons go on strike for....erm... higher voltage? Or something... |
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A strike will be the least of our problems (I believe you
mentioned Skynet, earlier). |
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//buy watsons and help college students with them// |
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but...what about elementary? |
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//A strike will be the least of our problems// |
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I don't mind strikes, so long as they are not of the 'air' or 'orbital' variety. |
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<dreaming up way to unionise Watsons..but how are they supposed to wear their teamster caps...thinks back to Max Headroom and his golf shoes collection..> |
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[Fries], it's elementary, my dear Watson. |
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