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To: arun gera who wrote (45840)	12/16/2005 6:23:15 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 306849

Already the baby boomers who grew up with more media than their parents, try to solve many problems by controlling the marketing message rather than by actually working on the problem. What a great observation Arun. I just posted to grace one of my first econ/ba professors - he was big into that TQM BS - look at the publications he did on TQM: valdosta.edu I was at IBM when that BS came into our corporate culture - TQM posters started going up everywhere and all these marketing experts with new PARADIGMS came in - hehe - It was hard for me to take as a computer guy all these marketing types gumming up all the science and engineering we all loved - many good people left the company rather than be monkey boys for the marketing misfits. TQM - what a joke - like most economists - hehe.

To: arun gera who wrote (45840)	12/19/2005 10:00:18 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 306849

Kids just learn different language skills now. Like the language of video games, media, and electronic and computer gadgets. So I am sure their brains are getting their exercise in different ways. I agree with most of what you write. I think the introduction of video games and computers raised literacy. It got the kids away from the TV which is a passive medium into something where you do have to have basic reading and problem solving skills to succeed. As annoying and violent as those games can be they require more complex, "beyond stage one" thinking than a TV show. Because the games score you continuously they have immediate feedback on what works and what doesn't. When I was checking out the pictures of the Mars rover, all I could think of was that all those hours of video games paid off for someone. As for adults, the computer and the 'Net has done a lot to improve their ability to write and communicate. As with anything else, the more you do something the more opportunities you have to improve. I've seen many individuals, in the time I've been active on SI, make serious improvements in their writing abilities. You find yourself in a few unintentional flame wars over a poorly worded sentence and this forces you to try to be more succinct in your public writing in the future. Of course, getting in flame wars isn't always a result of poor writing skills....more often than not it is a result of poor reading skills.