>>> I am not going to lament much, either. It is just how it goes. On the >>> brighter side, there will also be a minority, who will come to email >>> exactly because they will be aspiring power users. I think there will >>> always be some aspiring power users, so it is not going to be only bad. >> >> There will be, but they will keep dwindling. > > Things may be coming to this but they do not have to. I understand > that being a power user involves talking to computer with some kind of > a language, as opposed to pointing with finger. One example is unix > commands, where "ls /usr/bin/ /sbin /usr/sbin/ | wc -l" gives me well > over four thousand "words". So the question is, if in a future there > will be systems which allow "talking to computer with words", allowing > to make complex descriptions of "what to do". > > Talking to "siri" is not what I am thinking about, because just like > "desktop metaphore", the "assistant metaphore" is trying to hide too > much of underlying complexity to allow "power usage”.
Obligatory: Scotty: Computer! Computer? [He's handed a mouse, and he speaks into it] Scotty: Hello, computer. Dr. Nichols: Just use the keyboard. Scotty: Keyboard. How quaint. -Andy