... phone buzzed with the fury of a bumblebee chomping into a Bit-o-Honey candy bar. A baritone voice reminiscent of Sherill Mimes’ dulcet tones purrs into the receiver, "Good morning, I am a computer." In this chapter we honor a man, not a Rube Goldberg crafted machine. Time magazine recently presented a resume on a sampling of commencement speeches given to our graduating seniors. A theme common in many of these speeches is about the dangers we face in a big, impersonal society which treats people as things ...
