Why is this post flagged? Despite it's tone it state a valid and perfectly shareable consideration about IT evolution. Ok, it's a rant but... Apart from that:

Why is this post flagged? Despite it's tone it state a valid and perfectly shareable consideration about IT evolution. Ok, it's a rant but... Apart from that: I goes beyond that post. We keep pushing new things that's confirm Greenspun's tenth rule, or they try to (re)create normally ignoring past creation, things Xerox &c implemented decades ago. The most advanced modern notebook UI are actually limited implementation of classic text editors like the old Tioga, just far heavyweight and a bit more pixel perfect/colorful, and FAR LESS featureful. Modern web (aka web 2.0)? An user-depriving Xerox Star Office System and so on. The common denominator is re-implement such past ideas in a way to keep users out of control/out of the "power of IT" + plugged-in surveillance. A rant might be not that insightful but definitively pertinent...