The question of flexibility is interesting.
Tools seem to magnify one human ability such as a bicycle or scuba gear.
Would you consider the internet or writing to be less flexible than speach
or a telephone?
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Victor Margolin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The problem becomes more complex, however, as devices and systems are
> invented to replace human agency as in an ATM machine instead of a bank
> teller, on-line shopping instead of a music store and on and on. I have
> previously made a distinction between human-human exchanges and
> machine-human exchanges, arguing that machines may substitute for humans but
> they are less flexible.
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