[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Fri Apr 13 10:21:07 CDT 2007


Bill Bradford wrote:
> 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


"Harrison Bergeron", Kurt Vonnegut


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