On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:32:20AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > > > On 3/23/21 02:22, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > >I am not going to lament much, either. It is just how it goes. On the > >brighter side, there will also be a minority, who will come to email > >exactly because they will be aspiring power users. I think there will > >always be some aspiring power users, so it is not going to be only bad. > > There will be, but they will keep dwindling.
Things may be coming to this but they do not have to. I understand that being a power user involves talking to computer with some kind of a language, as opposed to pointing with finger. One example is unix commands, where "ls /usr/bin/ /sbin /usr/sbin/ | wc -l" gives me well over four thousand "words". So the question is, if in a future there will be systems which allow "talking to computer with words", allowing to make complex descriptions of "what to do". Talking to "siri" is not what I am thinking about, because just like "desktop metaphore", the "assistant metaphore" is trying to hide too much of underlying complexity to allow "power usage". -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
