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Re: Powerpoint rots your brain
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 20 Dec 2003 05:56:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> What if Honest Abe had had Powerpoint available to him?
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> http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
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From the site:
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Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn't live
without it, could we? Oh - is it ready? OK, here we go:
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reminded me of Bill Maher, who was on Larry King the other night...
He told this little story about when he was the main speaker at some DotCom
dinner--Someone had said at the dinner that the internet was the most important
technological advance in history.
Bill got up and said (paraphrased) "between 1850 and 1903 the following things
were invented--refrigeration, electicity, the automobile and airplanes--now what
would you rather live without--refrigeration, the automobile, electricity and
flight *or* the internet?"
Bill said many things on Larry King and I had a tough time disagreeing with any
of them.
Dave K
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| What if Honest Abe had had Powerpoint available to him? (URL) some background (URL) a very controversial book (URL) if this is all old news to you all. It had me snickering (and I've been told I "give good foil" as we used to say in IBM)... (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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