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From: Rob <europax@home.com>
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To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it>
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Subject: Re: How do you get kids interested in computers- oth
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Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
> 
> I have heard about a recent research on the so-called "Internet
> generation". Actually, this label was used to indicate the [LoseBlows]
> "point-and-click" generation browsing, or rather, surfing the 'Net.
> 
> Some results of the research:
> 
> 1) pointing-and-clicking (cf Pavlov) limits thought and, especially,
> (mental) analytical processes;
> 2) pointing-and-clicking & surfing reduces concentration;
> 3) it also reduces memory;
> 4) people begin not to distinguish important from immaterial information,
> inter alia, as well as reducing their intellectual/critical capacities: a
> side-effect of too much (uncritical) surfing.
> 
> In other words, pointing-and-clicking & surfing the 'Net causes people to
> become (more) stupid. No joke.
> 
> Ok, many people have always thought (and said) that for ages -- on an
> empirical basis :-)) But now there seem to be more serious grounds for
> the argument. Well, it is an important point to consider when bringing up
> children...
> 
> <half serious>
> Corollary: Unix (and FreeBSD in particular) is -- and makes people using
> it -- really smart ;-))
> 
> Intelligenti pauca.
> 
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I have a hard time explaining to Windoze people why I like Unix so much
on the laptop.  Its because I don't have to point and click!  I really
like typing in console mode, eg. irc with BitchX.  Its refreshing to
come home and type after point-and-click all day long at work on winNT. 
Rob.

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