Message-ID: <19981002142020.AAA3239@LOCALNAME> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:20:09 -0400 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@NS.SYMPATICO.CA> Subject: Re: Message in a Bottle To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
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{ In other words, it's not the people that have a problem, it's the
{ technology. Technology is supposed to be the "study of useful techniques",
{ not "the study of arcane things that I'm supposed to do to make this work."
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Whatever it may be of, isn't the operative word *study*? Each technic
emerges as a solution to a particular problem -- at the price of creating
another, which clause, after generations of outright denial, we are slowly
coming to accept as reality. Now you can sit around and wring your hands
about that fact, or you can try to keep up, first by using it for what it does,
and secondly by learning to get around the voids of not-doing that it reveals.
By 'getting around' I dont mean everyone has to be an engineer or a
programmer, but to use the sense that god gave geese, so that what 'needs'
to be done can be specified more clearly when the engineers get to work.
To my mind, wishing that the mail-server and the mail-list were
indistinguishable does not qualify.
{ PS. I've got more than 20 years experience with technology.
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Hooray; Ive got 50-odd myself, plus a few years of experience *without*
technology which have been at least as informative.
kerry