Calculators (was "shortage" of eligible bachelors)

"YooperBoyka <cjdont@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>" wrote:
> I had Darren's remarks about Morse Code in mind actually, but doesn't
> the above go right along with something like the loss of actual
> mathematics skills after the use of calculators became widespread?
> Who memorizes multiplication tables anymore?

You might like this short story by Isaac Asimov:

    http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html


Darren Provine ! kilroy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 ! http://www.rowan.edu/~kilroy
"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise
 enough to control our learning and knoweldge, so that we use it to
 destroy ourselves?  Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than
 ignorance.  It is better to know even if the knowledge endures only
 for the moment that comes before destruction than to gain eternal
 life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a
 universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder.  That was
 the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too." -- Isaac Asimov