COMPUTER OPERATORS
“Paying Job Of Future" (N.Z. Press Association > AUCKLAND. Aug. 24. Men who could not operate computers would be hardpressed, in the future to find reasonably-paid jobs, said Sir George Thomson an English physicist and Nobel Prize winner, in Auckland today. “I don’t say that age has already arrived, because I can't operate one myself,” he said. "But it is not too far distant." New Zealand should become Increasingly aware of the need for higher education to fill posts in future society, said Sir George Thomson. “The time will come when being able to read and write is not enough,” he said. In New Zealand universities he had visited there was a widespread feeling that higher education, and particularly science, was not regarded with preference.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 8
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COMPUTER OPERATORS
Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30528, 25 August 1964, Page 8
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