"There is no reason to believe that simply providing the schools with microcomputers will do much to improve education. Indeed, the thrust of our experience in the United States gives us every reason to believe that doing so will mostly be a waste. Time and time again we have flooded the schools with new instructional technologies--film projectors, television, language labs, scientific equipment, and more---always with high expectations, always to be disappointed in the end. There is no (easy) technological fix to be had, no magical machines to solve our educational problems quickly, painlessly, cheaply." Jim Rutherford, President, American Association for the Advancement of Science, June 5, 1984.
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