Re: WIRED 6.01/Technocracy R.I.P.

Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin (warrl@blarg.net)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 18:59:31 -0800


> From: Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net>
> WHile nuts like rifkin & company are irrational in their fear of
> change, most average people have developed, through the industrial
> revolution to today, a sense that technological change is a threat
> to their ability to earn an income doing what they do now, a threat
> to their jobs. Remember, most people tend to be SOOO happy when they
> finish school and get out into the workforce. Most tend to get into
> the habit of thinking of learning something new as a pain in the
> butt.

Who else thinks this is a damning condemnation of our educational
systems and methods?
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