Vita sine libris mors est

Jul 13, 2005 18:27

This infuriates me:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8540381/

Laptops cost $850, whereas books cost $500-600? And then school districts wonder why they don't have enough money. Kids will lose their laptops, break them, download viruses, pour drinks all over them ... plus the school will have to pay for keeping software up to date. A good set of books, even if they are beaten up in the public school system, can last for almost ten years (I certainly used ten-year-old textbooks in middle and high school).

Computers are subject to certain limits in terms of their usefulness. There comes a point when computers are no longer useful tools, but hindrances. I have spent countless hours on formatting, wrestling with bugs, and trying to navigate through useless help folders when I could have written something in a fraction of the time, by hand.

Though I must confess, I am typing this post from a computer
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