OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

Wed Mar 24 01:37:45 UTC 2021

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:32:20AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
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> On 3/23/21 02:22, Tomasz Rola wrote:
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> >I am not going to lament much, either. It is just how it goes. On the
> >brighter side, there will also be a minority, who will come to email
> >exactly because they will be aspiring power users. I think there will
> >always be some aspiring power users, so it is not going to be only bad.
> 
> There will be, but they will keep dwindling.

Things may be coming to this but they do not have to. I understand
that being a power user involves talking to computer with some kind of
a language, as opposed to pointing with finger. One example is unix
commands, where "ls /usr/bin/ /sbin /usr/sbin/ | wc -l" gives me well
over four thousand "words". So the question is, if in a future there
will be systems which allow "talking to computer with words", allowing
to make complex descriptions of "what to do".

Talking to "siri" is not what I am thinking about, because just like
"desktop metaphore", the "assistant metaphore" is trying to hide too
much of underlying complexity to allow "power usage".

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Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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