On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:57:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> tomas writes:
> > See my other reply. My whole point is about making lives of curious
> > users easier by sticking to the terminology they'll find should they
> > dare (yes,please!) to open that door to the cellar.
> 
> The people at Xerox PARC and SRI who came up with the desktop metaphor
> in the early years weren't thinking about personal computers.  They were
> working on office automation.

OTOH, if you read Zuboff (or even Foucault), this is a classical pattern:
you roll stuff out to some captive population first, before going into
the wild :-)

Cheers
-- 
t

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