[AccessD] OT: Weekend, technology OT: Microsoft Surface Computing....

As for me, I really like pencils, especially with erasers on their heads.
That covers the writing part. As for the reading part, I'm afraid to take my
notebook into the bathtub. With a book there's no risk of electrocution,
only elocution :)

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Darryl Collins <Darryl.Collins at coles.com.au
> wrote:

> well... maybe...,
>
> 'They' have been promising the demise of the book for years now, but a book
> is an almost perfect technology and is still going strong.  In places where
> electricity is hit and miss, tech support non-existent and tech expertise
> thin on the ground, well, you really can't beat a blackboard and some chalk
> for teaching kids how to do stuff.  Given that most of the world live  like
> that and us folks who live in rich first world countries are the lucky
> ones... well....
>
> I love tech, but it can also be awfully over-rated.  ok, it is v cool, but
> will it change the world? maybe, but only the rich world and even then, not
> yet....  Sometimes the old tech is just cheaper, faster, better....
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