Feb
3
“I’m weary of this notion (even when presented as satire) that anyone who can’t master a computer must clearly be mentally retarded. The personal computer of 2010 is hard to understand for novices and people who struggle with abstract concepts. Macs, PCs, all of them. Folks, it’s us, the freaks who understand drive partitioning, regular expressions, virtual disk images, task switching, and shell scripting — we’re the exception.”
Steven Frank at stevenf.com - in a great entry in the iPad-as-a-computing-device-for-everyone argument. I love being a geek, but I’d love it if my family members could pick up a device and *get it* without my help even more.
