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Subject:Re: PC Phobia From:"Kahn, Stacey" <skahn -at- WB -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 28 Aug 1995 11:55:15 U
Random musings on possible barriers to accepting PCs:
Knowing how to type --and certainly the act of typing-- was seen as clerical
until recently. Maybe some of that bias against keyboards remains.... the
perception that using a computer is equivalent to doing ones own secretarial
work, that it's demeaning or menial. (I've seen this attitude even in
purportedly "high-tech" companies.)
Can't help with solutions on this one other than to suggest that top management
set the example.
--Stacey Kahn
SKahn -at- wb -dot- com
speaking for myself and not for my employers
who have up to three computers at each desk...
