- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to 'multitask,' to switch rapidly among many competing focuses of attention, has become the hallmark of a successful citizen of the 21st century.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient. Human beings are the slowest elements in a system.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture human thought and imagination?
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Internet voting is surely coming. Though online ballots cannot be made secure, though the problems of voter authentication and privacy will remain unsolvable, I suspect we'll go ahead and do it anyway.
- Credit Card
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- Nov 07, 2020
After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well?
- Put
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.
- Compromise
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the little semi-competencies of human beings, I realize. Governance, after all, is a messy business, a world of demi-solutions and compromise, where ideals are tarnished regularly.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
Y2K is showing everyone what technical people have been dealing with for years: the complex, muddled, bug-bitten systems we all depend on, and their nasty tendency toward the occasional disaster.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Y2K has challenged a belief in digital technology that has been almost religious.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading code is like reading all things written: You have to scribble, make a mess, remind yourself that the work comes to you through trial and error and revision.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020