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This article is probably falling for the cognitive bias (whose name I forget), where what actually happened looks inevitable in retrospect, but looked much more
by JulianMorrison 15y ago
This article is probably falling for the cognitive bias (whose name I forget), where what actually happened looks inevitable in retrospect, but looked much more undecided in prospect.
Contrast all the other tablet PCs and so forth which have had a tendency to be sharp-cornered and bulky with asymmetric elements like buttons. The idea of having no favored orientation, for example, is innovative. Most historical tablets had one way up, and it was SVGA landscape.
- rincewind 15y agoIt is called "creeping determinism" or simply hindsight bias. http://www.gladwell.com/2003/2003_03_10_a_dots.html http://www.gladwell.com/2003/2003_03_10_a_dots.html