COMPUTERS seem capable of doing almost anything - but they can never replace human contact and communication, says the winner of a computer education scholarship.
Manson Ng Kwing-fei, a Form Four student of Wah Yan College, Kowloon, said computers will most likely take on the role of language one day, but communication between humans was unique and nothing can substitute for it, not even man's 'cleverest invention'.
'Computers may help you to communicate with other people. But you still have to reach out directly to people if you want to build up a rapport with someone,' Kwing-fei said.
Manson was one of 43 primary and secondary students who won over HK$3,000 in the Futurekids Computer Education Scholarship. The winners will be given a basic computer course at the computer learning centre Futurekids, which also organised the scholarship.
Contestants had to write an essay on one of three topics. They were expected to draw on their experience of computers, and their imagination, in their compositions.
Manson wrote about the relationship between his future profession and the computer.