Asri-unix.654 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!FFM@MIT-MC Fri Jan 29 04:27:17 1982 HUMANISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS technologists fight over so much. Both want to see the world changed for the better. Humanists(philospher's artists writers etc) infleuence the world more indirectly but they do exert, in my view a considerable influence. By pointing out things they see in the world and how they feel about it artists and writers definitely influence the social climate that the technologist types work in and the like. Technology types that I have known have been seriously influenced by "works of art" especially literature and this causes them to do things differently than they would if they were not so influenced. Technology types do things that at thier best give power to people. Like the power to express my ideas to many people in many different areas quickly. Most technology types are not cold, crass individuals at all, and 99% of them bleed if you prick them. The problem is dealing with stereotypes of what artists and technologists are like. These stereotypes are usually quite funny. I STILL MEET PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT COMPUTER HACKERS TALK IN A DULL MONOTONE VOICE LIKE ROBOTS IN SOME OLD MONSTER MOVIE. Once upon a time science, technology and art were not considered mutually exclusive realms. It would be nice if we could recapture some of that rather than fighting about which is 'better' and 'more useful'. Have fun Sends Steve ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.