What's remarkable to me is that she
can st~ll come up with the right
answers at all . . . but then, she is
only in third grade. Thirteen ~ears of
computer-aided only-one-correct-
answer testing will probably effect~vely
blur the line for her between whatts
r~ght and what's expacted.

The trend toward computers in the
classroomÄand, for that matter,

computers in the real worldÄis a
wonderful thing wien humans pose
the quesrions and computers find the
answers, forthe combination o~human
creativity and a computer's tireless.
piodding rescarch is potent.

But do it the other way araund and
we'll only rid the world of smart-
aiecs. In that case, goc~d luck to us all.
Brad Lemiey
Washingron, D.C.

Hard disk prayers

I was just reading a trtvel articie on
Tibet wLere this American business-
man calculates that a pilgrim ~iving
each of the 108 pra?,er whsels in
Lhasa's Jokhang Plonasrery a turn as
he or she circies around the exterior
walls recites "Om Mani Pctdn~e Om"
16 bilIion times in one circu~t.as Iong
as the turn possesses sufficient {orce
to leave the wheel revoivin~g ten times.
While I don't as ~et have a TV, I am
tryin'to get on this computer band-
wa~on with you guys' like those yurts,
funny food, ciothes, books etc. when
I was younger. So anyway, I realized
that a hard or lrloppy disk wouid make
an excellent prayerwheet, enabling a
user to enrer an unsold amount of
praryer information and spin k very
quickly, with ability to alter, monitor,
and tabulate prayers as the situation
or times diccated. I think adding a linle
prtyer somewLere in your routine
programs might help too, as rt wouid
spin araund wi~h ~he rest of the data
and surely have a goob effect.
John Benecki
Inchelium, Washington

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