[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Fri Apr 13 10:15:51 CDT 2007


On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:12:40AM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> I'm still reminded of the old SciFi story that I can't recall the
> name/author of at the moment.  In it everybody was handicapped to the
> point of being equal.  The main character of the story for instance had an
> earpiece that made loud random noises into his ear so he couldn't use his
> higher-than-average intelligence to be better than anyone else.

Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons", perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

(god I read wayyyy too much sci-fi...)

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas



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