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Idle thought: in computing we have compute, storage, network. One might say that these are analogous to (individual/group): thinking/collaborating, saving/sharing, but we appear no standalone concept for communication (group) but with oneself.

Text is a special case of hypertext; media is a special case of hypermedia.

I have a Cannon Typestar 10II, a typewriter that lets the user type and edit a line in the machine’s memory before printing. But, it has no ports: you can’t use to with your computer to type or print. It is the physical equivalent of closed software and data structures.

Imagine a road between locations A and B, but that can followed only from A and is invisible when at B; imagine also that, when challenged, the engineers say:

“You mean back-roads? Yeah, these guys drive around tell us where some roads go but don’t give us the map. Cool right?”

Give me a sufficiently efficient pump and a 12-volt outlet, and I can lift my car.

Taleb: the casual investor who checks their portfolio too frequently will go berserk, worrying about minor price changes.

Lanier: if you prime a computer system to respond to quick changes in emotion, it will select for lust and anger (fast) over learning and friendship (slow).

Hardware idea: scanners/copiers should, after each job, emit a beep and display an on-screen message saying: “Don’t forget your original document!”.

When unimpeachably intelligent people literally “can’t find” the program (window, tab, etc.) that they were/are using, one must, I think, admit that it is the user interface that is unintelligent.

The devil is in the data structure.