This Writing Life

Novellist Ian Hocking: accidentally best-selling since 2011

Category: computing

★ Human-Human Interaction

It was 1995 when I first saw a Macintosh computer for reals. It did not impress me. The monitor was monochrome; the mouse was clunky and had only one button. Its Graphical User Interface updated slowly. We had dozens of Macs in the Psychology Department computer room, which we called the cattle market. On these [...]

Bill Thompson: Brave, New, Inscrutable World

Bill Thompson makes an interesting point about the two cultures – computer literate and computer illiterate – growing apart in the digital age.