I'm pretty sure you (like myself) don't know everything. Just cause you don't see something more doesn't mean there isn't anything. Nor does it mean there is.
The point is, I don't think you know. By the by, I hope you're wrong.
Personally, I think somebody will need less help figuring things out if they learn to do it themselves. As long as it's accessible, I don't think a lot of direction and instruction is good for the kid's ability to think freely.
I barely know how to read an analog clock (it takes a while), since I could always just ask what time it was, and nowadays they're all digital.
I think it's good to be able to think for yourself.
First place I saw computers was at school, they had Number Munchers or whatever it's called set up. I was thinking that it itself was pretty lame, but what else could be possible with it would be pretty amazing.
Some time later, we got a Tandy1000, with it's simplified graphical OS. You clicked a box with a word in it, and it went to that program. Right away, without instruction, I moved the mouse to "Draw" and started clicking around making all kinds of circles. It just went on from there.
Like another reply to this said, a lot of the thrill was just seeing what you could make it do. I could go in and change the programs that were showing, and experiment with different things. Like making the joystick function as a mouse.
Eventually this (and a desire to create games) would lead to wanting to learn programming.
So like I said, I agree with the previous post. Just maybe make it available to them (perhaps as well as some other things they might be interested in), and leave it to them.
No. There's a difference between somebody who is natural and somebody who has a modified body. Having better training facilities is not the same as being altered by drugs or especially engineering.
I'm not religious, but I think this stuff is wrong and kinda scary.
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Oh? And how do you know this?
I'm pretty sure you (like myself) don't know everything. Just cause you don't see something more doesn't mean there isn't anything. Nor does it mean there is.
The point is, I don't think you know. By the by, I hope you're wrong.
Personally, I think somebody will need less help figuring things out if they learn to do it themselves. As long as it's accessible, I don't think a lot of direction and instruction is good for the kid's ability to think freely.
I barely know how to read an analog clock (it takes a while), since I could always just ask what time it was, and nowadays they're all digital.
I think it's good to be able to think for yourself.
I agree.
First place I saw computers was at school, they had Number Munchers or whatever it's called set up. I was thinking that it itself was pretty lame, but what else could be possible with it would be pretty amazing.
Some time later, we got a Tandy1000, with it's simplified graphical OS. You clicked a box with a word in it, and it went to that program. Right away, without instruction, I moved the mouse to "Draw" and started clicking around making all kinds of circles. It just went on from there.
Like another reply to this said, a lot of the thrill was just seeing what you could make it do. I could go in and change the programs that were showing, and experiment with different things. Like making the joystick function as a mouse.
Eventually this (and a desire to create games) would lead to wanting to learn programming.
So like I said, I agree with the previous post. Just maybe make it available to them (perhaps as well as some other things they might be interested in), and leave it to them.
So you see no distinction between a part of the body that is man-made and one that isn't?
No. There's a difference between somebody who is natural and somebody who has a modified body. Having better training facilities is not the same as being altered by drugs or especially engineering.
I'm not religious, but I think this stuff is wrong and kinda scary.