Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [MUGers] Turn off the options, and turn up the intimacy.
From: Gary Elshaw <godard@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:56:52 +1300

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.

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