> I think most people just want appliances. That’s what their minds can handle and that’s what the market responds with. TO expand on my other comment on this

> I think most people just want appliances. That’s what their minds can handle and that’s what the market responds with. TO expand on my other comment on this thread, I think what we need to do is train the next generation to handle and demand more, rather than lock them into appliances based on what the older generations supposedly can't handle. Maybe we need to look to historic systems like Lisp machines, NLS (the subject of Engelbart's "mother of all demos"), or the original PARC Smalltalk system to recapture a more ambitious vision for personal computers, from before Apple decided that they should be appliances.