How the Cool Stuff At CES Will Ruin Your Life 171
jfruh writes "Another CES has come and gone, and as usual the press has presented rather uncritically a list of super-cool gadgets that were unveiled at the show and that will make our world better. Let's leave aside the fact that many products shown at CES never make it to market; Paul Roberts provides the pessimistic case on the big CES news, explaining how all these gewgaws will strip away privacy, unleash an army of Clippys onto the world, and maybe even change human brains for the worse."
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The good ideas/products will stay, the bad ones will die away. That's how evolution works.
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Making things easier to use isn't always dumbing things down.
Back in them olden days. We needed to program on a line editor (this was an improvement over punch cards) .
so we needed to code like this.
10 print "HELLO WORLD"
20 input $x
Now you wanted to fix your program....
10 print "Hello, Please Login"
15 print "Enter your name"
25 print "Hello " $s
Those line numbers for every line of code was important, basic practice was to skip every 10 or 100 lines so you can put stuff in the middle, bececause if you ran out of numbers you would need to redo the code over.
Later on we got visual editors such as VI where we can edit the program multiple lines. This made our lives easier, however it didn't dumb down, programming, but made it better because we could use our time programming and not renumbering after every bug.