Technology reduces the value of old people, warns MIT computer guru

[Dennis Baron]

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Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

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On Nov 8, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

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> At 11/8/2009 02:17 PM, Dennis Baron wrote:
>> There's a new post on the Web of Language:
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>> Technology reduces the value of old people, warns MIT computer guru
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>> Philip Greenspun, an MIT software engineer and hi-tech guru, argues
>> in
>> a recent blog post that "technology reduces the value of old people."
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> Nah, I don't believe it.  He's passe -- the ghost past of Greenspan.
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> Joel
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>> It's not that old people don't do technology. On the contrary, many
>> of
>> them are heavy users of computers and cell phones. It's that the
>> young
>> won't bother tapping the knowledge of their elders because they can
>> get so much more, so much faster from Wikipedia and Google. . . .
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>> According to Greenspun, "An old person will know more than a young
>> person, but can any person, young or old, know as much as Google and
>> Wikipedia? Why would a young person ask an elder the answer to a fact
>> question that can be solved authoritatively in 10 seconds with a Web
>> search?"
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>> read the complete post on the Web of Language: http://bit.ly/weblan
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>> Dennis Baron
>> Professor of English and Linguistics
>> Department of English
>> University of Illinois
>> 608 S. Wright St.
>> Urbana, IL 61801
>>
>> office: 217-244-0568
>> fax: 217-333-4321
>>
>> http://www.illinois.edu/goto/debaron
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