Future of Computing?
August 5, 2005 | 1 Comment
There is a great discussion going on over at TeleRead titled Want to reach nongeeks? Then beware of the C word, about computing devices and handhelds. What will be popular and eventually gain critical mass with general public awareness and interest. Should the geeks be determining where we go, or should we finally listen to what users want.
In the initial post Casey Bisson said:
Geeks look at things asking what they can do to them, the rest of the world is asking for something to do the things they want to. Computers have necessarily put a little geek in everybody, but those expectations are counterproductive to the development of new devices like the Pepper Pad. Twenty years ago geeks scorned the Macintosh because it didn’t offer the DOS prompt they expected. Where’s that DOS prompt now? Geeks aren’t average users, we shouldn’t use those expectations in judging products targeted at the mass market.
Go read the whole post. Then read Casey’s additional post, The Coming Information Age. I think this really digs into where computing hardware is going. It is always interesting as we try to predict the future, many ideas will be discussed, few will come to be.
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