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

Wed Mar 24 03:23:16 UTC 2021

>>> 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”.

Obligatory:

Scotty: Computer! Computer? 
[He's handed a mouse, and he speaks into it]
Scotty: Hello, computer. 
Dr. Nichols: Just use the keyboard. 
Scotty: Keyboard. How quaint. 

-Andy