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...generation of the '60s -- were inspired by the ``bards and hot- gospellers of technology,'' as business historian Peter Drucker described media maven Marshall McLuhan and technophile Buckminster Fuller. And we bought enthusiastically into the exotic technologies of the day, such as Fuller's geodesic domes and psychoactive drugs like LSD. We learned from them, but ultimately they turned out to be blind alleys. Most of our generation scorned computers as the embodiment of centralized control. But a tiny contingent -- later called ``hackers'' -- embraced computers and set about transforming them into tools of liberation. That turned out to be the true...
...Fuller said this type of cut in welfare spending is harmful if the state cannot adequately provide child care for families on public assistance...
...thirds of all welfare recipients have pre-school aged children," Fuller said. "If just a fraction of welfare parents go to work, the immense demand for preschooling in the inner-city will bring down an already fragile system...
...Fuller advocated the creation of a "targeting mechanism" in child care before the state makes welfare cuts...
...present, subsidized child care exists for both rich and poor communities in Massachusetts. Fuller argued for a mechanism to ensure that federal funds provided under the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program are distributed in the form of subsidized child care to poorer communities rather than middle and upper class communities...