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| r_schestowitz | >> IIRC, you're 16 years older than me, so you'll likely to experience less | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | >> of the consequences than me. | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | > 53. It's not an advantage. It just means I've been watching things get | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | > monotonically worse for a longer time. Since I started paying attention | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | > it would be about 40 years now. | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | > Those in their teens apparently cannot or do not read, at least almost | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | > none that I encounter appear to read anything. They admit to avoiding it. | Sep 22 07:58 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > Perhaps that's why I'm so stoked about the Raspberry Pi, because it is | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > one of the few areas in ICT that has been a good thing lately. So for a | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > little while there is a good tool for many projects and learning. Also, | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > because ICT could once again become a force multiplier[1] for good, | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > instead of what it is now, I support and work what little I can towards | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > Software Freedom. | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > [1] yeah, yeah, Steve Jobs and all, but at that particular point in time | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > he was spot on: | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > "Steve Jobs: I remember reading an article when I was | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > about twelve years old. I think it might have been | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > Scientific American where they measured the efficiency | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > of locomotion for all these species on planet earth. How | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > many kilocalories did they expend to get from point A to | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > point B? And the Condor 1 came in at the top of the | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > list, surpassed everything else. And humans came in | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > about a third of the way down the list which was not | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > such a great showing for the crown of creation. And — | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > but somebody there had the imagination to test the | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > efficiency of a human riding a bicycle. A human riding a | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > bicycle blew away the Condor, all the way off the top of | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > the list. And it made a really big impression on me that | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > we humans are tool builders. And that we can fashion | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > tools that amplify these inherent abilities that we have | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > to spectacular magnitudes. And so for me, a computer has | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > always been a bicycle of the mind. Something that takes | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > us far beyond our inherent abilities." | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > | Sep 22 07:59 |
| r_schestowitz | > https://singjupost.com/steve-jobs-lost-interview-1990-full-transcript/ | Sep 22 07:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-singjupost.com | Steve Jobs Lost Interview 1990 (Full Transcript) – The Singju Post | Sep 22 07:59 | |
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