On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
The thing that seems to be widely overlooked by technologists, possibly by the high-IQ crowd in general, is that Moores law does not apply to wetware, and consequently, there very much is a fixed upper limit for how much technology you can push on the general population.
Excellent points - I'll buy the first round if we're ever at the same conference. Most Mac users would take credit for saying it first :-)
"High-IQ" is an adjective devoid of semantic content, however. See SJ Gould's "Mismeasure of Man" or Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. Binet invented IQ to discover the underperforming tail of the curve, not "smart people".
We can do the stiff upper-lip and thumb our noses at this well documented phenomena, or we can accept it and realize that successful technology in the future is that which makes things simpler instead of more complex for people.
100% agree, but the definition of "simpler" is "maps elegantly onto the real world". The Earth does rotate, the Moon does steal its angular momentum, the Sun does illuminate our lives.
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