From: ianeast (ianeast_at_email.domain.hidden)
Date: 2001-08-09 12:19:29
Lawrence Dickson wrote...
>There has to be a way out. I for one am hoping to
>avoid spending my declining years fighting an ever
>expanding river of gobbledegook whenever I want to
>build something. Even if I have to abandon the
>computing field altogether.
This gells with me. I too like building things and find that the
available tools and components tend to get in the way. Try building a
website. What a mess! But it's the commercial and not the technical
realities that make the mess. We need commercial brilliance to match the
technical.
I believe the best opportunity is Donald Norman's notion of "information
appliances" - simple, compact hardware units with dedicated function,
that connect together hot (without crashing), and end the idea of one
machine that does everything for everyone. Seems a good fit to CPA/CSP to
me.
Ian
Dr. Ian Robert East School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
ireast_at_brookes.ac.uk Oxford Brookes University
(44) 1865 483635 Oxford OX3 0BP
Consultation hours for 2001/2002 Term 1
To be decided
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 on 2004-10-31 20:03:59 GMT
© Copyright WoTUG
All rights reserved