[fonc] Historical lessons to escape the current sorry state of personal computing?

2012-07-14 Thread Ivan Zhao
45 years after Engelbart's demo, we have a read-only web and Microsoft Word 2011, a gulf between users and programmers that can't be wider, and the scariest part is that most people have been indoctrinated long enough to realize there could be alternatives. Naturally, this is just history

Re: [fonc] Historical lessons to escape the current sorry state of personal computing?

2012-07-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tomasz Rola wrote: Oh, I mean, yes, everybody can learn to program, but how many have any kind of their own ideas for their own programs? Of all Lego (ab)users, how many build their own constructs while the rest is content with copying stuff? Of all literate humans, how many have something