5, 10, 20 years from now

5, 10, 20 years from now

[Don Saklad]

Questions asked by really big fans of gnus mail...

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?...



b. Possibly, how could this be solved so that the dot file will set up
   automatically according to the parameters of the system setup of
   the end user?...



c. What delays this being done now or relatively soon?...



In the future when we'll have real computers we won't be required to
have arcance knowledge to operate them to their greatest capacity!





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Re: 5, 10, 20 years from now

[Jason Earl]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Don Saklad <dsaklad@nestle.ai.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> 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?...
>
> Yes.
>
>> b. Possibly, how could this be solved so that the dot file will set up
>>    automatically according to the parameters of the system setup of
>>    the end user?...
>
> Yes.
>
>> c. What delays this being done now or relatively soon?...
>
> I'm making t-shirts.

Perfect!  I already have Gnus set up so that it works for me, and I
happen to be in need of a t-shirt.

Jason

Re: 5, 10, 20 years from now

[David Masterson]

>>>>> Don Saklad writes:

> Questions asked by really big fans of gnus mail...
> 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?...

In 10-20 years, we'll all be replaced by robots, so why worry about
Gnus?

8-D

-- 
David Masterson                David DOT Masterson AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer               Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering           Sunnyvale, CA

Re: 5, 10, 20 years from now

[Paolo Amoroso]

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
-- 
Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>

Re: 5, 10, 20 years from now

[Richard Hoskins]

David Masterson <David.Masterson@synopsys.com> writes:

>>>>>> Don Saklad writes:
>
>> Questions asked by really big fans of gnus mail...
>> 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?...
>
> In 10-20 years, we'll all be replaced by robots, so why worry about
> Gnus?

'Cause then we can read news all day, instead of going to work.

-- 
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