>> looking for associates to teach inventing
>> using video conferencing or DVDs.
>>
Technology seems to have finally hit the mainstream, in the sense
that random people without particularly "engineering-like"
characteristics are starting to play with it as art, toys, etc.
See things like "Make Magazine", http://www.instructables.com,
and numerous other "alternative educational blogs" (for lack of
a better term.)

I don't know whether to be pleased or disgusted.  It is part of
the engineer personality (IMHO) that you should have a basic
UNDERSTANDING of a tool before using (or abusing) it, and a lot
of this is a rejection of that principle.  The same thing happened
with computers quite some time ago, and it's still hard to tell
whether it was a good thing overall (it was certainly PROFITABLE
for a lot of people!)

BillW
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