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Computer Literacy and the Press by Joseph A. Menosky - 1984Recent polls indicate that some 90 percent of Americans believe that computer literacy (generally defined by proponents as a familiarity with the parts of a
microcomputer and some measure of programming skill, usually in the language BASIC) is important enough to warrant its inclusion in the national educational curriculum. This article is concerned with how and why the belief itself has been propagated by the American news
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- Joseph Menosky
Santa Monica, California JOSEPH A. MENOSKY is a writer and radio producer living in Santa Monica, California. He has been the science editor at National Public Radio and is currently writing a column on technology for Science 84 magazine.
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