Computers are now being pushed into schools. We know that multimedia will make (21) easy and fun. Children will happily learn from (22) characters while taught by expertly (23) software.Who needs teachers when you’ve got (24) education These expensive toys are difficult to use in the classrooms and (25) extensive teacher training. Sure, kids love video games — (26) think of your own experience: can you (27) even one educational filmstrip of many years ago I’ll (28) you remember the two or three great teachers who made a (29) in your life.
Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised (30) catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets (31) the network, book restaurants and egotiate sales (32) .Stores will become obsolete. So how come my local mall does more (33) in an afternoon than the entire Internet (34) in a month Even if there were a trustworthy way to (35) money over the Internet, the network is (36) a most essential ingredient of trade and commerce: salespeople.
What’s absent from this electronic wonderland People contact. Computers and networks (37) us from one another. A network chat line is a limp (38) for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes (39) to the excitement of a (40) concert. This virtual reality where frustration is legion and where—in the holy names of Education and Progress—important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.