Right because something that takes your job away does not create unemployment *eye roll* - moron.

Actually it is, study economics some time. One of the goals of any company is to manage it's workforce - which means to have as few as possible employees as possible.

The rest of your post was just ranting.

LMOL none of that stops businesses from using them and those flaws can be fixed.

That was the authors point: "Optimists insist that we've been here before, during the Industrial Revolution, when machinery replaced manual labor, and all we need is a little more education and better skills. Tufekci points out that one historical example is no guarantee of future events. "

In the past, machines replaced "manual labor." Today, machines are replacing "white collared labor." Getting more education won't help you anymore.

The FCC did not up anybody's cost. Nice trolling.

The price is dictated by the person selling the units. If they don't know wish to sell the units at "market value" then they don't. It's quite simple. Just because some jackass wants pay million dollars for a house does not make the house worth a million.

Actually it's about encouraging kids to find out what they have an aptitude for instead of people telling them they don't or discouraging them.

And they do and they have. That's the problem with posting on a subject that have little information. But then these forums are really just shouting matches for ignorant people.

Yup, somebody who works at McDonalds....

Please stop. You're ignorance on the subject is showing.

Awful lot of low information people posting....

But that's the problem - how do you know what areas someone is strong in when they are being discouraged from pursuing them.

Calm down zippy. There are already all girls and all boys schools. They're Parochial schools. So why don't you complain to them.

Can we drop the pretense that "computer science" in high schools is nothing more than programming and turning out code monkeys.

Wow so your son wants to go to an all girls school? So he's gay or something? You do realize there are all boy schools and all girls schools already in existence. Are you going to complain to them? Moron.

Actually it doesn't say that at all. What it says is that in a gender mixed environment females tend to get discouraged from pursuing math and science. I'm not a fan of the idea but the reasons are understandable.