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Thomas,
Interesting way to look at this, it really got me thinking.
Thanks for posting your thoughts on this.
-Andy Lynch
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From: "Thomas Main" <main@appstate.edu>
> The world continues to change. I work at a university where some of the
> buildings were built brick by brick by masons who were most likely proud
> of their work and effort. There are cornerstones on some of them with
> the date of completion. These buildings are, of course, the older
> buildings on campus and the heat is faulty in the wintertime, there is
> no air conditioning in the summertime, etc. Meanwhile the steel and
> glass buildings that are being erected now are much more comfortable and
> desirable for the students here...but they are artless. We shop in
> warehouse-like supercenters that are raised practically overnight and
> will be razed just as soon as their purpose expires. We live in a
> disposable society where the values that used to be honored are not the
> ones that count so much anymore. Tradition is flying out the
> window...and it's not all bad. We are learning new ways of thinking and
> interacting...we're growing digital and fast in our way of being. TLC
> is doing the same. Children of the '60s and '70s could relate to
> construction and building...and it was nice to while away an afternoon
> modeling what was happening in the real world (construction of buildings
> and infastructure). Today's children are also modeling the real
> world...by playing computer games and such. I think there is a happy
> medium, and it's one TLC is very aware of...they are trying to combine
> digital and realk-world modelling so that children can experience
> both...with their product as a bridge between the two ways of thinking.
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