Most people reading this post will have used computers most of their lives. This is not just true of so-called digital natives born in the post smartphone era. It's also true of people like me. I was ...
Any casual computer history fan will know that the desktop computing metaphor sprang from Xerox PARC in the 1970s, and the great leap of insight it embodies is taking one model of working that people ...
Uh, we use computers for archiving and storage these days for a good reason. The system implied by the "desktop metaphor" is shit for organization, speed and clarity. Why anyone would want to emulate ...