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The failure of the digital computer (1998)

2 points| eecsninja | 6 years ago |the-adam.com

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dredmorbius|6 years ago

This is remarkably similar to the sentiments I addressed in "The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User"

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

The trade-off is one of intensity vs. ubiquity, and has pecedents, e.g., Dwight Macdonald's "A Theory of Mass Culture", 1950s.

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