Fill in the Blank

[John Voiklis]

"Fantasy." Now that is a great way to fill most any kind of blank; if
Edwin doesn't use it, I definitely will.

Best--J

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>