Re: [9fans] Harvey OS: A new OS inspired heavily by Plan 9

[lucio@proxima.alt.za]

> In general my computer does about exactly what i envisioned 15 years
> ago whilst it was not possible yet.

I should now go into a tirade about the price we pay for the features
the marketing departments are foisting on us, but of course, it is not
all bad (I'm not sure if I can call my Galaxy S5 a cloud or the silver
lining) and what is very good is very, very advanced.

Precisely why we don't want it to become, as it is certainly going to
become "indistinguishable from magic".  If that does not worry you and
you are OK with children who won't even know that there is such a
thing as a machine-dependent "assembler", then no further conversation
is possible.

To me, moving science out of technology (how does it work?) is beyond
dangerous.  Where you can no longer predict the behaviour of
non-deterministic programs, you find yourself in a place far too
similar to Nature, where only the strong survive.

Lucio.