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Technological Progress? Only If We Assume The Wrong Things...

Summary: When we're told that we're all dumb we're being given increasingly dumb technology (and they tell us dumber is better)

THE user is dumb Dumb-di-di-dumb

Who needs a keyboard? Just use the bloody palm

Phone: Is this... Better than this?

You can scroll down the "wall" Can purchase and pay Join in and play ball Who need more than a finger's pinch anyway?

RSS readers are tedious Too much clutter is hideous The users are dumb di-di-dumb Just have a chance to "like" with a thumb!

RSS: Is this... Better than this?

Sites are disgusting Too many options for dumb di-di-dumb users Strip off everything It's like lyrics for one to sing

EFF: Is this... Better than this?

Who needs navigation anyway? It confuses the dumb reader Let's do the same to desktop navigation Let Canonical be the babysitter

KDE: Is this... Better than this?

Who needs all the eye candy? Who wants a functional interface? The users are presumed too dumb di-di-dumb Let's bring them down to pace

500 disjoint projects? Throw them all into one One God, one IBM, hosted by Microsoft Sounds like a lot of fun!

systemd: Is this... Better than this?

Our computing experience is reduced to a K.I.S.S. On technical users we certainly piss Back doors, telemetry, DRM and other antifeatures? Oh, those we don't want you to miss

The bloat is growing The displays are shrinking One Web page of an article won't be like blinking

Four cores and four gigabytes Those may never suffice For 30 trackers and 30 MB of fonts Downloaded not once but twice!

Your computing will excel Excel for the spies Why are you moaning Who do you despise?

Follow the plan You may never know when It'll be safer and better to work with paper and pen

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