I was struck by this paragraph in John McCarthy's detailed critique that followed the manifesto and thought it pointed out a real issue for many systems: "U

I was struck by this paragraph in John McCarthy's detailed critique that followed the manifesto and thought it pointed out a real issue for many systems: "Unfortunately, the making of computer systems and software is dominated by the ideology of the omnipotent programmer (or web site designer) who knows how the user (regarded as a child) should think and reduces the user's control to pointing and clicking. This ideology has left even the most sophisticated users in a helpless position compared to where they were 40 years ago in the late 1950s.