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The failure of the digital computer (1998)
- dredmorbius 7y agoThis is remarkably similar to the sentiments I addressed in "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User" https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyranny_of_the_minimum_viable_user/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr... The trade-off is one of intensity vs. ubiquity, and has pecedents, e.g., Dwight Macdonald's "A Theory of Mass Culture", 1950s.