On: "Instead of cures for cancer we got Angry Birds"

[theorique]

Either personal computing was a great idea or it's a platform for the trivial and banal, you can't have it both ways.

Well, you can. Cheap personal computers unleashed an amazing amount of creativity in all areas of human endeavor

and

they also enabled that power and creativity to be used for trivial, disposable things, as well as scams and harmful things.

Human life went online, with both the good and the bad.

[James_Duval → theorique]

I should have said:

>Either personal computing was a great idea or it's solely a platform for the trivial and banal, you can't have it both ways.

Even then I concede that this was a straw man for the Telegraph journalist's position. How embarrassing.