From: Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>
Subject: Re: 5, 10, 20 years from now
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:38:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <+UepPgPD71q4M45H0eDTbzfR09Mu@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y44k7dlfksy.fsf@nestle.ai.mit.edu>
On 23 Apr 2003 08:41:17 -0400, Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.ai.mit.edu>
wrote:
> a. 5, 10 or 20 years from now, do you guys think that gnus mail will
> set itself up automatically without any knowledge needed on the
> part of neophytes?...
Dan Bricklin, of VisiCalc fame, wrote this insightful essay:
The "Computer as Assistant" Fallacy
Learning to use things that are hard is part of being human
http://www.bricklin.com/assistantfallacy.htm
Paolo
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Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>
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2003-04-23 12:41 Don Saklad
[not found] ` <m3u1cp1hr5.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org>
2003-04-24 4:50 ` Jason Earl
2003-04-24 23:05 ` David Masterson
2003-04-26 4:11 ` Richard Hoskins
2003-04-25 14:38 ` Paolo Amoroso [this message]
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