On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 03:01:08AM -0600, Michael A. Stone wrote:
> my personal take on geek-luddism is that "more technology" isn't
> automatically good. i believe in sticking with technology long enough
> to assimilate it, work the bugs out of it, and come up with something
> that's really *useful*.. not in trading this season's batch of random
> botches and blunders for a new set every six months.
Bingo. It still amazes how much carping about "poor technology" and
ranting about the need for "new technology" comes from people who haven't
got a clue how to use the technology they already hold in their hands.
(Example: some debaters on the list-manager's mailing list, involved in
discussion about the merits of allowing users to send HTML to mailing
lists seem to have completely missed the point that J. Average User
still has trouble figuring out how to properly edit followups,
subscribe/unsubscribe, and reply publicly/privately.)
Appropriate quote that showed up on the qotd mailing list:
"... [person] said "Well, it seems to have a lot of momentum."
Of course it has momentum. You gain momentum very fast when
you're rolling downhill out of control. What I want here is
not momentum. What I want is progress."
- Elizabeth Zwicky)
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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