On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 12:57:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > See my other reply. My whole point is about making lives of curious > > users easier by sticking to the terminology they'll find should they > > dare (yes,please!) to open that door to the cellar. > > The people at Xerox PARC and SRI who came up with the desktop metaphor > in the early years weren't thinking about personal computers. They were > working on office automation. OTOH, if you read Zuboff (or even Foucault), this is a classical pattern: you roll stuff out to some captive population first, before going into the wild :-) Cheers -- t
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