Fill in the Blank

[G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl]

In 1986 Bob Hart from England told a story:

When he was a child and hardly could read, he read a book of Edith Brighton.

(According teachers was that not literature but all the children liked it..)

Bob told us that he filled with his fantasy the parts of the book he could
not read.

Later when he could read better he read the bokok again... and it was
boring....

(Then he introduced an adventure-builder-game-for children: Thombs of
Arkenstone.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Rueger [mailto:m.rueger at acm.org]
> Sent: donderdag 6 juni 2002 7:24
> To: squeakland at squeakland.org
> Subject: Re: Fill in the Blank
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Alan Kay wrote:
> > I'm curious as to your prefered choice. Also you might try 
> to fill in 
> > this blank first:
> > 
> >     "Music is not in the piano" as "(blank) is not in the book"
> > 
> > You could also ask yourself what is (are) the special 
> thing(s) about 
> > humans that the computer might be great at amplifying.
> 
> "Music is not in the piano" as "Knowledge is not in the computer"
> 
> I just ran accross an article by Phillip Armour in an older CACM 
> (10/2000). There he argues that software is the fifth medium 
> for storing 
> knowledge: DNA, brains, hardware, books, software and that 
> software is 
> the only external knowledge storage that is active.
> 
> Michael
> 
>