“The door is there, for anyone with a sincere, passionate desire to learn. Which sounds really nice, ‘anyone with a sincere and passionate desire to learn.’ I just eliminated 90% of the world. 90% of the world wants to sit at home and watch Honey Boo Boo.” --Chris Boden.
Sophisticated, powerful technology able to revolutionize the world becomes not only available but cheap, half the world’s population carries around a supercomputer in their pocket with an always-on connection to the sumtotal of all human knowledge, and that device’s user interface is designed to express little more than “Dat wun daddy watch me dat video dat wun now!” Because that’s the level at which nearly everyone is willing to approach computers.
“The door is there, for anyone with a sincere, passionate desire to learn. Which sounds really nice, ‘anyone with a sincere and passionate desire to learn.’ I just eliminated 90% of the world. 90% of the world wants to sit at home and watch Honey Boo Boo.” --Chris Boden.
Sophisticated, powerful technology able to revolutionize the world becomes not only available but cheap, half the world’s population carries around a supercomputer in their pocket with an always-on connection to the sumtotal of all human knowledge, and that device’s user interface is designed to express little more than “Dat wun daddy watch me dat video dat wun now!” Because that’s the level at which nearly everyone is willing to approach computers.