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...School teachers and for two hours conducted an in-service technology-training conference for a dozen of them, arrayed before him around a horseshoe of computer terminals. Aaron, a freshman at Mayfield High School, ran through a series of sophisticated videoconferencing demonstrations. Later he provided individual assistance to his adult "students," pacing behind them, peering over the top of his gold-rimmed glasses to look at a screen or click a mouse...
Less marketable but much more intriguing are the diverse political implications of Starship Troopers. For one, rather than a picture like Star Wars, which pitted two adult and articulated ideologies of Good and Evil against one another, this picture features a kind of super-race of buff, soulless, undifferentiated humans against a race of beings who are denied any thoughts, feelings or social structures at all. The film is essentially two hours of watching apple-cheeked children squash anthills for sheer visceral thrill...
...increasing presence of computers in schools and public libraries has heightened parental awareness of the relative ease with which children are accessing adult sites...
...Flannery said that in the three-and-a-half years that computers with Internet access have been available in the adult section of the main library, she has received no complaints about pornographic sites...
...study, which rated Swedes most "literate" and Poles least, also cited America's high dropout rates as a contributor, but noted that education was no guarantee that an American adult could handle tasks like deciphering a bus schedule or calculating the interest on their mortgage. Isn't there a computer program that does that...