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The Good News About Computers Is That They Do What You Tell Them To Do. The Bad News Is That They Do What You Tell Them To Do.

I Have Long Been Alarmed By People's Sheeplike Acceptance Of The Term 'computer Technology' - It Sounds So Objective And Inexorable - When Most Computer Technology Is Really A Bunch Of Ideas Turned Into Conventions And Packages.

So, The Point Was To Be Able To Have A Medium That Would Record All The Connections And All The Structures And All The Thoughts That Paper Could Not. Since The Computer Could Hold Any Structure In Any Form, This Was The Way To Go.

The Four Walls Of Paper Are Like A Prison Because Every Idea Wants To Spring Out In All Directions - Everything Is Connected With Everything Else, Sometimes More Than Others.

Everybody Has Only A 24-hour Day. Most People, If They Increase Consumption Of One Medium (like Magazines Or Books) Will Cut Down On Another (like Tv). This Drastically Reduces The Sort Of Growth Some People Have Been Expecting.