i was having a conversation about this with my friend the other day, his theory is that technology used to required you to exercise your brain a wee bit, that i

i was having a conversation about this with my friend the other day, his theory is that technology used to required you to exercise your brain a wee bit, that it enhanced your thinking. But now the focus is on making it as slimmed down, "easy" as possible, brainless as possible, unfunctional as possible. It made me think about my understanding of the old GNU folks, that software should be free to modify, because everyone should be poking around in the software on their systems on their own. An ambitious dream probably, but I don't really hear about ideas like that in my day to day work anymore.