A very nice article rant by Lore Sjöberg about the dumbing down of things appeared on Wired last week.
From it:
Really, though, I blame the handheld calculator. If you can't figure
out the cube root of 187,092 with a slide rule, you don't deserve to
know it.
link
From it:
Really, though, I blame the handheld calculator. If you can't figure
out the cube root of 187,092 with a slide rule, you don't deserve to
know it.
link

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