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November 19, 2003
The Future of Computing, circa 1983
From The Joy of Computers (1983) by Peter Laurie:
"To judge from the crowds round any demonstration of Lisa, it speaks loudly to the naive computer user. It remains to be seen how long people will be happy to pay what will always be a heavy extra price for the hardware necessary to mimic paper, rather than spend a few hours learning to do things in a more economical way. More seriously, it may turn out that although paper metaphors for computational ideas make it easier to sell machines to inexperienced users, in the long run it may be a sterilizing influence. As I have tried and will try again to show in this book, there are many aspects of computing which have no parallels in the familiar world of paper information. Sooner or later people who want to be 'computerate' will have to buckle down to the fact that computing is actually different from paper."
Posted by Perry at November 19, 2003 08:35 AM
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