Responds to Theodore Roszak's "The Ethics of Affordability" by arguing that labeling computers as the problem is a simplification of a cultural problem: the inability to make sense of overwhelming amounts of information. Concludes that, instead of condemning technology and promoting books only, educators must rethink what reading and…

Examines the causes of public anger and intellectual embarrassment with computer literacy and argues that it is no mere coincidence that intellectual embarrassment has become our besetting cultural vice at the same time that information technology proliferates. Roszak suggests that the book belongs to a rich and necessary way of thinking that…