Archive for: October 2007

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I read an interesting post by a student writing for his school newspaper, today. It prompted all kinds of thoughts.

The post inspired me to write a long comment to it, which you can also read at the above page (if you’re bored).

Combined with having watched the great Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot” on the tube last night, I was prompted, once again, to consider what computers, calculators, the tube, etc. are doing to us, as a global society.

Obviously, considering the medium we are using, I am not a Luddite. Far from it. I like tech. But I like it to further my understanding and appreciation for life, not to nullify it.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Here’s a link to a post about a quote from Richard Feynman, concerning math textbooks.

Richard Feynman was a brilliant physicist, physics professor and Nobel Prize winner, and author of the wonderfully titled, “What do You care what Other People Think?”

His iconoclastic way of thinking and expressing himself got him in a lot of “trouble” from small-minded government and educational functionaries.

But he still remained Richard Feynman. And they remained small-minded government and educational functionaries.

Math textbooks, then as now, are mostly written to get contracts from these functionaries. They are seldom reviewed by competent parties.

But your government wouldn’t accept fraud, waste, or abuse, would it?

Check out the article.