It's encouraging to see how far we've come. Software like octave/jupyter/mathematica have gone similar routes as far as memory and presentation. It seems that

It's encouraging to see how far we've come. Software like octave/jupyter/mathematica have gone similar routes as far as memory and presentation. It seems that interfaces making use of people's physical intuition (page style layouts with a natural ordering) continue to be popular. Though not mentioned explicitly in the article, manual spreadsheets existed at the time of writing. Modern spreadsheet tools havent changed substantially for decades, so i would argue this is a fascet of computational symbiosis that may already have been perfected.