Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Spell Check or Delete Key?

Spell Check did not "catch" the error in yesterday's blog-post. (I think we had Arthur C. Clarke ~ bless his scientific soul ~ dead before he was born.) It was particularly funny because the post is about intelligence.

An animated e-mail from a friend this morning is humourous. In a colorful cartoon: A puff of dust, a detached Computer cable and ~ poof! ~ an empty desk-top. Gone is the computer, with the caption: "All I did was hit the delete key."

Most days we wouldn't have it any other way. The essentials in life include our computer and, yes, the Internet. However, it feels like a world of contradictions, a constant tug-of-war for some of us between the human mind and the electronic brain. May the human prevail.


Note: Our thanks to the human reader who caught the error.

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