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In Age of High-Tech, Are We Losing Touch With DIY Skills? / Opinion
Science-fiction author Robert A. Heinlein once wrote: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
That's a tall order. Although I can only do some of those things, I approve of the principle. Nowadays, though, we're specializing more. A popular Internet essay is titled: "I Can't Do One-Quarter of the Things My Father Can." Are hands-on skills — building things, fixing things, operating machines and so on — really in decline?
I think so. SAT* scores provide a record of academic performance, but there's no equivalent archive for tracking handiness. There is, however, a lot of anecdotal evidence that what used to be taken for granted as ordinary mechanical skills...
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Robots in Disguise is an electro-indie-rock-dance band from London. Dee Plume (guitar and vocals) and Sue Denim (bass and vocals) are its only two members, apart from a drummer named Ann Droid, and occasionally at gigs, a bassist (usually either Noel Fielding or Chris Corner). Part riot grrl princesses, part monsters of DIY musical mayhem, this extremely talented duo has a reputation for fashion-forward style and energetic shows where Dee’s guitar and Sue’s grooving bass lines dance over chunky electronic beats and tell-it-like-it-is lyrics.
The girls are rumoured to have taken their stage names from the French word for a writer’s pen name: “nom de plume” (Dee Plume) and the word for an assumed name “pseudonym” (Sue Denim).
Sue and Dee met whilst students in Liverpool. They quickly discovered a shared love of girl punk bands and so started writing music together. They have released one EP: “Mix Up Words And Sounds” and 3 delicious albums, starting
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