[EAS]Truth Squad Needed

pjk pjk at design.eng.yale.edu
Sat May 12 20:04:18 EDT 2001


Subject:   Truth Squad Needed


http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg050901.htm

> On many topics, one person's truth is another's lie. But every
> debate needs a foundation of plain facts, laid out in ways the
> public can grasp.
> ......
> [David] Farber, one of the true Internet pioneers, is professor of
> telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania, and just
> finished a year as chief technologist at the Federal Communications
> Commission. He also laments the state of education for people who
> plan to make careers of technology. Ethics and other social
> considerations are dismissed as irrelevant. "We're not educating
> our students," Farber says. "We're training them."

    --PJK





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