Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club

pulling the plug on the electronic revolution

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Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club

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235

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Minutes of the Lead Pencil Club: pulling the plug on the electronic revolution
1997, Pushcart Press
in English - 1st Pushcart Press pbk. ed.

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Table of Contents

The lead pencil club / [Bill Henderson]
Pencils / Gail Lawrence
I'll take the superhighway's sideroads : testimony / by Michele M. Cardella
The electronic hive : refuse it / Sven Birkerts
Adding memory / Andrei Codrescu
Powerless power : how barbarians defeated technology / Sanja Brizic Ilic
Why I am not going to buy a computer : testimony / by Wendell Berry
A little cyber grouch / Russell Baker
You can't live on the Internet / Clifford Stoll
Invalids in the garbage of memory / Peter Grenquist
My last class : the Hmong vs. high tech : testimony / by Leonora Holder
The media-free family : testimony / by Mary Ann Lieser
Letter perfect : testimony / by Ron Tanner
Abolishment of childhood? : testimony / by Mary Clagett Smith
Asia, Asia! / Eva Schawohl
Young cyber addicts : testimony / by Amy Wu
When executives should just say no : testimony / by Madeleine Begun Kane
The myth of computers in the classroom / David Gelernter
Booklove : testimony / by Jerome Stern
Why The Pocahontas Times does not have a fax : testimony / by Russell D. Jessee
User-friendliness : book vs. disk : testimony / by Stephen Manes
As it is / Dorianne Laux
Medical emergency : testimony / by Peter H. Gott
Scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Toad? / Lance Morrow
The compulsion to think : testimony / by Alan David Sophrin
My son saves nanoseconds : testimony / by Arthur Hoppe
A read-only man in an interactive age : testimony / by George Felton
The fetish of impermanence / D.T. Max
Don't fax me in / Carol Ann Messecar
Cui bono? / Eva T.H. Brann
Slower was faster : testimony / by Gerald Howard
Oh, for a yellow tablet : testimony / by Susan Hanson
From The dead man poems / Marvin Bell
Faust in the computer age : testimony / by Val Schaffner
Welcome to cyberbia : an economic primer / M. Kadi
The information superhighway : mega buys : testimony / by Franklin Saige
Cybersuicide : quitting the Net : testimony / by J.C. Herz
Virtual students, digital classroom / Neil Postman
Rapture and redemption in the virtual world / Mark Slouka
Afterword / Doris Grumbach.

Edition Notes

"Letters, essays, cartoons, and commentary on how and why to live contraption-free in a computer-crazed world."

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820.8/0356

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Pagination
235 p. :
Number of pages
235

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OL18336845M
ISBN 10
0916366200
OCLC/WorldCat
36335827
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102514

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