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FOUND: The anti-Farber
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:01:30 -0500
From: eekid () aol com [mailto:eekid () aol com] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 2:37 PM To: dfarber () cs cmu edu; dave () farber net Subject: FOUND: The anti-Farber http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=cz3ybvRv4vrs26KNywsqjVt4rVhfxdkZ "Progress is overrated. Or so says Martin A. Rice Jr., an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He has no love for the computer (the keys are "too mushy," he says). He despises PowerPoint. He prefers plain paper over glowing screens. If he could go back to making copies on a mimeograph, he would. "I'm fond of the old and suspicious of the new," he says. Mr. Rice explains all this over a rotary telephone from the 1970s. Later he bangs out a follow-up message on his 1938 Underwood Champion portable typewriter. " _____ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail <http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=ao lcmp00050000000003> ! ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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