Steve Goodhall
steve at goodhall.info
Tue Jun 12 11:02:53 CDT 2012
Not so far ahead of its time as you might think. You should look at The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, November 1909. It's widely available on-line including http://services.exeter.ac.uk/cmit/media/texts/forster/the_machine_stops.pdf. Also, here's a link to Alone Together, an interesting TED talk by Sherri Turkle http://www.youtubecom/watch?v=MtLVCpZIiNs Regards, Steve Goodhall, MSCS, PMP ----- Original Message ----- From: Access Developers discussion and problem solving To:"Access Developers discussion and problem solving" Cc: Sent:Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:26:20 -0700 Subject:Re: [AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8 Isaac Asimov wrote a Sci-Fi about a distant world, covered with huge automated farms where the planet's few people met occasionally via a ghostly 3D imagining system (Naked to the Stars). Much of the book dealt with the inhabitants great fear of real social contact. I think this book was written in the late 50s...well ahead of its time. In the book, the great distances between the people made physical contact difficult. Now a days many people socialize from small adjacent cubicles. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisorscom [1] [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [2]] On Behalf Of rockysmolin at bchacc.com [3] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:02 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8 "keeping up with people and their pictures and their thoughts, and communicating with them in short, frequent bursts. Life online is moving faster and faster, and people are progressively using their PCs to keep up with and participate in that." a good reason too get offline and start talking to real people. Don't you see where this is leading? Isolation with the illusion of human interaction. isn't anyone else getting fed up with how much time one feels COMPELLED to be on line just to be part of this modern culture? Best geek t-shirt: "I went outside once but the graphics were terrible." Shoot you cell phone. Unplug your Cat-5. Feel the sun on your face. Actually have coffee with someone instead of both drinking it while on line. Or is it because I'm old? Rocky -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AccessD] Whilst on Windows 8 From: Darryl Collins Date: Mon, June 11, 2012 5:19 pm To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving (accessd at databaseadvisors.com [4])" Hi folks, I found these on the weekend and had a read. It is rather long, but I found it was well worth a read - however you will need more than a spare 5 minutes though. windows-8.html> [5] The following quote (taken from the link above) really raises my concerns and fears about this whole iPad tablet craze.. "People, not files, are the center of activity. There has been a marked change in the kinds of activities people spend time doing on the PC. In balance to "traditional" PC activities such as writing and creating, people are increasingly reading and socializing, keeping up with people and their pictures and their thoughts, and communicating with them in short, frequent bursts. Life online is moving faster and faster, and people are progressively using their PCs to keep up with and participate in that. And much of this activity and excitement is happening inside the web browser, in experiences built using HTML and other web technologies." Let me translate that for you: "We're optimizing Windows for using Facebook and YouTube at the expense of performing productivity tasks." Yeah, that maybe great for web surfing and Joe and Joette Bogan on the daily train commute, but if you actually want to do the sort of productive work that we (and most of the corporate world does) then I think MS are out of their heads. They seem to be so desperate and focussed on getting a foothold in Mobile (and tablet) that they are risking killing the golden goose (namely the whole corporate productivity 'Office' market). File management, or the lack of it, also freaks me out. Actually after reading the way the iPad handles file management (which to me seems highly inefficient) it has really put me off the idea of one for anything but media consumption. W8 doesn't seem to be much better, but I guess it is early days still. the-ipad/?u=darklydrawl at yahoo.com.au [6]&r=16913-15810> Anyway... I found both of these interesting. You may find some value too. 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