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In my son’s first ever contact with a microcomputer he was asked to provide his name, whereupon he said to it: “My name is Basil. What is your name?” No response. He concluded that it is “NOT a clever machine.” This reminds us that today’s computing tools are not as “powerful” as we think they are because they are not oriented to our natural ways of teaching, comprehending, using and testing things.
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Mandil, S.H. (1991). On the Interaction between Health Informatics, the Individual and Society. In: Marr, P.B., Axford, R.L., Newbold, S.K. (eds) Nursing Informatics ′91. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46746-2_1
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