[ExI] Thanksgiving

[William Flynn Wallace]

For the future - near if possible:  far better usability for tech stuff.
My recent frustration with the Samsung phone is a great example:  tons of
functions that I can use.  When I got it, if you will recall, it did not
even tell me how to turn it off.  What is a person with even less tech
savvy than me going to do with it?  I am getting an Apple watch and am very
interested to see the difference between it and the Samsung.  Now, many
tech gadgets are unusable by nontech people.  So the faults in the tech
system lie between the designers of the hardware and the users:  i.e.
software.  How to use the damned things we buy.   bill w



On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 12:32 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 1:05 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I have these:
>>
>> 1.           Commercially viable computers, which I will kinda
>> arbitrarily assign to Apple computer, about 1977.
>>
> You mean commercially viable personal computers? Because mainframes and
> minis were already well established by then. Commodore and others helped
> pave the way for Apple.
>
>> 2.         HTML, which enabled the modern internet as we know it with
>> websites and links and all the cool stuff on there, about 1993
>>
> That's bass ackwards: the Internet paved the way for HTML and the WWW. And
> the smart phone.
>
>> 3.         Cell phone technology, which reached inflection point around
>> 2000 or so.
>>
>  My list would include:
>
>   personal computers
>   free software (GNU, Linux, and many more)
>   public-key encryption
>   the Internet
>   GPS & sat nav
>   searching (AltaVista, Google Search, Bing, DuckDuckGo)
>   social networking (email, Usenet, MySpace, Twitter, FB)
>   crowdsourcing (free software, Wikipedia, gofundme, pledgemusic,
> Uber/Lyft, Grubhub/DoorDash)
>
> Coming soon? Maybe:
>
>   AI
>   uploading
>
> -Dave
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