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Most of his detractors think that technology has outpaced him. He thinks that technology has outpaced us, rather spoilt us.
by SatyajitSarangi 13y ago
Most of his detractors think that technology has outpaced him.
He thinks that technology has outpaced us, rather spoilt us.
- gngeal 13y agotechnology has outpaced him It feels sort of weird to see such claims about a guy who was hacking on computer systems that were almost two decades ahead of everything else. (But that probably depends on what one sees as "technology". Shrinking transistor size is definitely technological progress, but I don't think that this alone has ever had a qualitative influence on the impact of computing systems - unlike their ubiquity, which, on the other hand, is not as much a technological advancement as it is a social one.)
- sliverstorm 13y agoBut is he still doing that? (Honest question, I don't know) Just because you were on the bleeding edge twenty years ago, does not mean you haven't been outpaced today.
- dinkumthinkum 13y agoHe was a brilliant technologist. I'm not sure how much programming he does anymore. But the technology outpacing stuff ... Have you looked into the sorts of devices and technologies he currently uses?
- wmf 13y agoI don't think technology itself has outpaced RMS at all, but it definitely appears that he doesn't keep up on current events. I remember when he released his screed against JavaScript as if he had just discovered it, but JS had been widely used for years at that point.
- kibibu 13y agoIt hadn't really been widely used for anything more than image rollovers though. His concerns arose when entire apps began being written in client-side javascript