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In their generation wiser.(Essay)
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Queen's Quarterly
- Article date:
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Millin, Leslie
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I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Parable of the Unjust Steward, LUKE 16:1-8
Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light
Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!
It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.
HILAIRE BELLOC
FEW MATTERS go as little remarked as the socially levelling effect of technology, especially information technology, yet it--for better or worse--is levelling society globally, except amongst the most desperately poor, and even amongst these wretched of the earth the levelling effects may sometimes be observed. For every young person in whatever country who has mastered the Internet, after all, there is ...