Re: Have We Entered a Post-Literate Technological Age?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

There is a difference between knowing how things work and how to do 
things for yourself if you have to, and being able to do them well 
enough for other people to admire you for your ability and be willing to 
pay you for it. :)

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>
> Along similar lines, I wonder how many of things in Heinlein list he
> himself could do. Program a computer? I doubt it. Plan an invasion? 
> Yea
> right. And while I enjoyed his science fiction, I'm not sure he could
> have written a decent Sonnet had his life depended on it. I've read 
> just
> about everything he's written, and nothing comes to mind.
>
> I think I am starting to see Sharon's point.

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