Re: RE: RE: starship-design: Numbers needed for Colonization (was Antiproton-Ca

[Kelly St <KellySt@aol.com>]

In a message dated 5/15/98 7:18:51 PM, lparker@cacaphony.net wrote:

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>You missed the operative word here. I said "frontier". Comparing it to "now
>a days" is not the same thing. Even in a technologically oriented frontier
>economy, children will be valuable. ANY six year old can run a computer
>keyboard if necessary.
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>My five year old cracked his school's internal network security while in
>kindergarten ... and has no problem running the various applications on his
>own computer. The type of work being performed may have changed but the
>method of performing it will change also. This is called "Paradigm Shift".
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>Lee

No thats exactly wrong.  Children now can't do the kind of things workers and
exploreres on a starship or space colony would need to know how to do.  Ok, he
cracked the internal security for his kindergarden.  Could he design one?
Could he do toxicitie research studies of alien microbes?  Or develop a high
level AI?

All the normal routine things that kids could do (run errands, do routine
work, check E-mail for letters from certain people, etc) can be automated out
of existence.  All that gets left is the high skill jobs that need more
training and experience then a kid could have.

Kelly


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>> parents economics.  I.E. kids are a expensive hobby.
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>> Kelly
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