Fun_People Archive
9 Jul
QOTD - There's nothing wrong with computers, but they aren't pigs

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From: Peter Langston <psl>
Date: Tue,  9 Jul 96 11:13:57 -0700
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Subject: QOTD - There's nothing wrong with computers, but they aren't pigs

Forwarded-by: Keith Bostic <bostic@bsdi.com>
Forwarded-by: lk@pdi.com (Lawrence Kesteloot)
Forwarded-by: drew@pdi.com (Drew Olbrich)

Here are some excerpts from a review of the Marin County Fair (vaguely
northeast of San Francisco), which appeared in the July 4 San Francisco
Chronicle.  The article starts out with a paragraph describing how kids
attending the fair were more interested in playing the video games than
looking at the farm animals.

    "Animals don't do much," said Darren Gutenberg, 11.  "Cows just walk
    around.  The world is getting too high tech to spend time looking at
    cows."

    Lisa Lavagetto, pig owner: "Kids have lost the ability to deal with
    creatures.  A pig is a living and breathing animal.  A lot of these
    kids have never seen a pig.  All they know is computers.  There's
    nothing wrong with computers, but they aren't pigs."

© 1996 Peter Langston