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Figs on Oct 23, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult

> What happens when people become trained to think of information and entertainment as something they receive and not something they create?

Well, how was it during all those decades when TVs were ubiquitous but PCs were not?

michael_dorfman on Oct 23, 2010 [–]

Well, how was it during all those decades when TVs were ubiquitous but PCs were not?

Pretty bad. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Eliminat...

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