Students graduating without some basic computer skills are unqualified for the real world. Computers and telecommunications are integral to the real world we live in. But when he cannot see the humor in books with titles like DOS for Dummies , then goes on to extol the advantages of manual typewriters over word processors, I feel that he does protest too much and at some point becomes farcical. Either that or he saw a market for a negative book and he went for it, taking advantage of the consumerism that he uses his book to condemn. Still, the book is worth reading because there is all too much hype out there about the Information Superhighway.
Caution is needed as well as a sense of perspective.
Rory McGreal is Executive Director of TeleEducation New Brunswick , a province-wide distance education and training network in New Brunswick, Canada. All Rights Reserved.