[svlug] Kids these days: was Who and What?

[Scott DuBois]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 06:54:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Rather than correlating it with age, I'd call what's happening today
> "the victory of the dweebs with devices". In 1985 you needed some
> serious smarts to operate a computer at all. Today, with interfaces
> incorporating human ambiguities, the huge hoard of less logical
> thinking people are increasingly determining the market.

God help us! What have we created?

Wasn't the whole idea to create a personal computer that was so easy and
intuitive anyone could operate it?

-- 
Scott DuBois        "You can't trust code that...
BSIT/SE	            you did not totally create yourself"
EFF ID: 1731778                              -- Thompson


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