Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's a nice (but very long) article by Neal Stephenson that covers some of this: http://www.spack.org/words/commandline.html He's way off-base, well maybe just shallow, on some of his cultural observations, but that's just me nagging. It's a really interesting take from 1999. Cheers, Gary Henry wrote: > It's the digital revolution that gone haywire. I think > computer applications while greatly advance our > control over complicated variables, also gives us the > technological abuse of the 21st century. > The modern automobile is another example of such > evolution by offering us tons of features, but the > irony is that we spend more time visiting the service > bays and the likelyhood of even the so-call experts in > fixing it is a chancy business. What begins as > machines to serve me, is turning us all into slaves in > serving IT endlessly. ___________________________________________________________________ "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields ____________________________________________________________________ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html