Nice idea, but...

The latest Logically Critical is about using computers. This is a very interesting rant about what computers should be doing to make the typical user's life easier.

This is some good stuff here, and I hope programmers hear it, but... I would guess that he knows this is highly unlikely to ever happen. Programs are written by humans who are working a job, with deadlines, managers complaining about giving the stockholders more money, and screwing the customer out of as much money as possible so programs should be as buggy as possible so they have to continually shell out to get patched versions that don't work any better... (Not that I read Dilbert or anything.)

Great ideas are... well... great. But practical ideas rarely are...

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