Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 13:17:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Slaves of computers (was: GUIs are flawed) Message-ID: <20000131131710.G62824@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <870cqi$h68$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000129163556.A69961@tougas.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001300024530.88536-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <870cqi$h68$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Sunday, 30 January 2000 at 4:57:06 +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > Sociologists often gibber about computer user's turning into slaves > of the machine rather than the other way around. It doesn't sound > as ridiculous anymore once you see how PC users debase themselves, > and do the most grueling, repetitive, mind-numbing work unfit for > humans. (And of course the sociologists' computer experience is as > PC users.) Many years ago I went to the Hannover trade fair and saw my first-ever colour terminal (see how long ago it was). It was some IBM 3276 derivative, and it displayed a menu saying "If you want to know more about the IBM 327x colour terminal, enter "1" and press Enter". So I went and pressed 2 to see what it would do. The program reacted reasonably (redisplayed the screen), but a droid wandered over to see what trouble I was having. I told him what I was doing, and he said, "Don't do that. Do what the computer says". I don't think your description of these people as "PC users" is completely accurate. I'm a PC user too, and so are you. You're talking about a mentality which pervades the industry. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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