From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 20 21:10:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C40537B408 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 21:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from daleco [12.145.226.234] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.06) id A875B1F0054; Mon, 20 May 2002 23:09:25 -0500 Message-ID: <040801c2007d$64dfdd60$fbec910c@daleco> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: "Nils Holland" Cc: References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> Subject: Re: The road ahead? Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 23:10:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Original Message: From: "Nils Holland" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: The road ahead? >> Of course, one could say that new technological inventations are made at a >> faster pace than ever before - but I guess this is only half of the truth: >> For the ordinary Joe, DOS turning into Windows 3.1, Windows 3.1 turning >> into Windows 95, and so on, was a real revolution. What seems to be >> invented these days seems to be only toys, no more revolutions! Does the >> new Fisher Price look in Windows XP make computers easier to use or people >> more productive, just like the switch from DOS to graphical Windows did for >> ordinary users? I guess not. And then - what else is "new" these days? Some >> folks would see the ability to talk to your computer as the next big >> revolution (which is partly already possible), but I fear that I have to >> say that talking would actually slow folks down, compared to having them >> enter commands or use the mouse within a GUI. So, another toy, but nothing >> new! > >The innovators are not the profiteers. The guy (gal?) who brings about >the next revolution will be an unknown, sweating away feverishly on some >post-doctoral work or some development.... Who was Ray Tomlinson >prior to 1971? And, how many of us know about him now? Of interest? http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/20/technology/20NANO.html?todaysheadlines K Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message