On: The home computer as a cultural object is physical...

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> So, I talked to Steve on the phone [about adding a standard pen and penholder]. I said, “Look Steve. You know, you’ve made something that is perfect for 2-year-olds and perfect for 92-year-olds. But everybody in-between learns to use tools.”

-- Alan Kay

Non-slave adults are the vanishing breed, the onslaught against general and self-determined computing is just one of the symptoms of that.

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> So, I talked to Steve on the phone [about adding a standard pen and penholder]. I said, “Look Steve. You know, you’ve made something that is perfect for 2-year-olds and perfect for 92-year-olds. But everybody in-between learns to use tools.” -- Alan Kay

Steve Jobs was right since most modern smartphones don't use styli. (Nothing against the Samsung S pen though.)

Alan Kay was right because the Apple Pencil is pretty great:

https://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/

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> Non-slave adults ...

Such a poor choice of words.

I loosely agree with your point, which I interpret to mean that generalized computing is endangered.

But it's endangered because the alternative experience is superior for most humans exercising their free choice.

It has nothing to do with slavery, or ignorance. This makes the problem much harder to solve.

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It's superior in the short term, more convenient, but in the long run it will leads to those people going away, and having no means to fight back against being made to go away.