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- Subject: Fitting people to machines?
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- FITTING PEOPLE TO MACHINES?
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- The dialog about keyboarding raises a deeper philosophical issue
- beyond practical and immediate training needs.
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- My postmodern view is that there is no perfect design solution and
- that the design of computers fits into larger myths and illusions about the
- computerization of society through education.
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- This is a time of clash between speech, print and electronic cultures.
- Don Ihde conveys the cognitive experience of writing with steel nib pen
- that has to be dipped into ink, for example, in his Technics and Praxis
- (1979). Our communication technologies are non-neutral, see C. A. Bowers
- The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing (1988). Are we moving
- from sovereign society through disciplinary society (see Foucault) to
- technologies of control (see Deleuze & Guattari) and thereby redefining
- issues of resistance and power?
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- Andrew R. J. Yeaman, Ph.D.
- Consultant, Yeaman & Associates Bitnet:yeamana@mscd
- Adjunct Professor, Metropolitan State College of Denver
- Internet:yeamana@zeno.mscd.edu
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