Mike Bruck found this TED Talk "Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind" and posted an alert to our webboard. Stoll seems to still be against computers in the classroom, a theme he beat to death in his 1996 book Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. Can't say I was a fan of that book. But, I continue to look back on his first book, 1989's The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage as a great read.
A comment on the TED Talks webpage hosting the video includes this description of Stoll: "That was like watching Robin Williams looking for a punchline in the works of Sir Isaac Newton." I saw him speak at an ALA conference many years ago and his "wildly energetic" TED Talk performance is calm compared to what I saw 10-12 years ago. All that said, it's an interesting 18 minutes and worth watching.
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