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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: thor on 11 November 2003, 14:17

Title: The Windows GUI as the Matrix:
Post by: thor on 11 November 2003, 14:17

Guardian.UK
...If your children's children can't speak the language of the machines, they will have to get a manual job - if there are any left.
This is yet another reason why Windows is such a dangerous commodity. It lulls us into the pernicious illusion that we can deal with computers without adapting to their logic. By presenting us with colourful screens and buttons for us to click on, Microsoft encourages us to believe that we can force computers to adapt entirely to our preferences for visual images, without having to adapt ourselves to their preference for text.
But not only does this prevent people from getting inside the machine and keep them in a state of blissful ignorance, it also proves to be a deceit, for in the end the user still has to adapt to the machine anyway...

Title: The Windows GUI as the Matrix:
Post by: thor on 11 November 2003, 14:18

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1078616,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1078616,00.html)

Title: The Windows GUI as the Matrix:
Post by: dumbassnemesis on 11 November 2003, 16:16

Whoever wrote that needs a tin foil beanie.