On Diversity: > Our perception of the world around us and how we see ourselves in, it is mediated by the decisions of a few privileged managers, programmers an

On Diversity: > Our perception of the world around us and how we see ourselves in, it is mediated by the decisions of a few privileged managers, programmers and designers[...]. To suggest any other way of living in a networked society is to risk being percieved as blasphemous, uncool, out-of-touch, escapist or simply absurd. These interfaces have become so embedded in our conception of reality that we now have a crisis of the imagination, where it is difficult to even think of anything different. I think that we are indeed losing computing diversity. Even something as boring as an Emacs-based computing experience (i.e. doing everything in Emacs) is often considered other-wordly or out-of-touch. Not having (and not wanting) a "smartphone" is another thing that is often responded to as almost unthinkable.