The Most Disastrous Thing That You Can

Humans Are Communications Junkies. We Just Can't Get Enough.

Basic Would Never Have Surfaced Because There Was Always A Language Better Than Basic For That Purpose. That Language Was Joss, Which Predated Basic And Was Beautiful. But Basic Happened To Be On A Ge Timesharing System That Was Done By Dartmouth, And When Ge Decided To Franchise That, It Started Spreading Basic Around Just Because It Was There, Not Because It Had Any Intrinsic Merits Whatsoever.

I Fear - As Far As I Can Tell - That Most Undergraduate Degrees In Computer Science These Days Are Basically Java Vocational Training.

Television Should Be The Last Mass Communication Medium To Be Naively Designed And Put Into The World Without A Surgeon-general's Warning.

There Is The Desire Of A Consumer Society To Have No Learning Curves. This Tends To Result In Very Dumbed-down Products That Are Easy To Get Started On, But Are Generally Worthless And/or Debilitating.