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NEW YORK — Americans may
find themselves branded as function
ally illiterate some time in the fu
ture, even though they can read and
write, if they can’t operate a com
puter.
Within a few years it will be neces
sary to be able to program and oper
ate a small electronic computer in
order to get and hold a job, a number
of scientists and technicians warn.
Arthur Luehrmann, computer-
500 tons« research director of the U niversity of
ent of 141 California’s Lawrence Hall of Scien
ce, says computer illiteracy could be
come a national headache by the end
of this decade.
“We will need 40 million persons
able to use computers by 1990 and I
don’t know who is going to teach
them,’’ he warned.
The world of the computer has
changed so radically that the electro
nic marvel now is affordable for all
3 n r institutions, businesses and indi-
^ ij j viduals, but the thinking about it in
our educational system has not
be returns Changed, said Dr. Andrew Molnar of
s testresii the National Science Foundation in
inTotnEi.- Washington.
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Horizons in Education at Santa Ana,
Calif.
Wamshuis said Dr. Sylvia Charp
proved in a program in Philadelphia
schools that computer literacy can be
achieved in grade school.
But school administrators still are
loathe to spend money on computer
training and in any event Dr.
Wamshuis wasn’t hopeful about sol
ving the problem in schools because
he said most persons capable of
teaching computer skills already are
employed in the business world.
This means, Wamshuis said, that
“for the foreseeable future, business
is going to have to solve its compu
ter literacy problem itself.”
Luehrmann agreed with that and
added that with the prospect of 10
million computers of all sizes being
in use as early as 1985, the task of
training people to program, operate
and service them looks staggering.
Since business will do a large part
of the training job, it needs compu
ters that are in effect self-teaching,
says Chairman George Ryan of
CADO Systems Corp. of Torrance,
Calif. CADO is one of several com
panies that are making such compu
ters for small business institutions
and individuals.
Working with Phoenix Perform
ance Systems of St. Paul, CADO de
veloped a system of interactive self
teaching programs for its litde com
puters in such functions as word pro
cessing, which means operating
automatic typewriting and data stor
age and retireval banks, and general,
payroll and inventory accounting.
These programs were tested on
many persons, including two groups
of high school students not previous
ly exposed to the computer. Ryan
said the results were astounding.
The kids mastered each course in an
average of four hours.
Although it will take a huge na
tional effort, computer illiteracy can
be averted and will have to be if
young people hope to compete in the
job market.
A word processing technician
already earns half as much again as a
clerk-typist and there are not nearly
enough trained persons available to
fill these jobs.
“TTie person who can use a small
computer can command a far better
salary than persons burdened by
computer illiteracy,” Luehrmann
said, “because their productivity is
so much greater than other workers
with similar background and eudca-
tion. ”
Drug increases stamina
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United Press International
LONDON — Dr. Stephen Fulder
claims there is a drug that athletes
and millions of others in Soviet Rus
sia swear by as a year-round restora
tive and which undoubtedly was
taken by competitors to increase
their performance in the Moscow
Olympics.
Yet despite its extensive use in the
Soviet Union for the past 20 years,
the West knows very little about it
and has a hard time accepting it can
be as effective as alleged.
“For this reason,” Fulder said, “it
has not been included in the list of
drugs which are banned for interna
tional sports events, nor it is in any
Western pharmacopoeia.”
According to an article in “New
Scientist,” digested from Fulder’s
new book, “The Root of Being,” the
drug is an extract of a thorny creep
ing plant known as Eleutherococcus
senticosus which belongs to the same
family as the ginseng root. It was
evaluated by scientists at the Insti
tute of Biologically Active Subst
ances at Vladivostok and accepted as
an official medicine in 1962.
Fulder, a gerontologist, said the
use of the drug in sport stems from
the discovery that it apparently
could increase stamina and perform
ance with less side effects than any
known stimulant.
In one test, Fulder said, a large
group of athletes was sent on a 10-
mile run, some after taking
Eleutherococcus, others being given
placebos. The tonic takers generally
were faster.
Another large-scale test showed it
could increase the amount of training
an athlete could tolerate without
harm, though there were occasional
and transient instances of a rise in
blood pressure.
Fulder quoted Prof. A.V. Korob
kov of the Lesgraft Institute of Phy
sical Culture and Sports in Moscow
as saying the preparation is not akin
to doping because it is primarily
aimed at accelerating the restorative
processes after intensive activity.
“It is not only athletes that relish
Eleutherococcus,” Fulder said.
“The drug is put to some extraordin
ary uses for which Western doctors
would assume drugs to be neither
relevant nor effective.
“It is taken by Soviet deep sea di
vers, mine and mountain rescuers,
climbers, explorers, soldiers and fac
tory workers to resist stress while
working hard under inhospitable
conditions. Lorry drivers and pilots
take it to keep adart and counteract
the potentially dangerous side
effects of other medication. Soviet
cosmonauts also take it in space.”
Fulder says Eleutherococcus was
discovered as a result of a screening
program of Far Eastern plants and
sufficient extract is now made to give
12 million citizens a month-long
course every year.
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“It is true,” he said, “that some
look askance at Soviet medical re
search.” But he believes the effect of
the extract cannot be a mass illusion
on the part of millions of people and
therefore it is something the West
ought to give serious scientific ex
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