Two great personal computing posts

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Hi folks, glad to see ya’ll here on the new forum!

There’ve been two really great articles on personal computing that have really struck me this week already, and I just want to share them:

Musings of Michael McThrow: Where Did Personal Computing Go Wrong: The Abandonment of User Empowerment, The Rise of “Big Platforms,” and Solutions (mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com)

What I Want From The Internet - Christopher Butler (chrbutler.com)

Both caused me to come back & review the Mission statement, the 7 principles here. I think the first link is a little closer/more obviously related to us here. But I also strongly think the only tenable future for software is an online future, that the Internet has to be the place where what happens next grows, & that ties back to What I Want.

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With apologies to people who don’t like OrangeSite, there are some existing discussions on these two I’ll also link to here: HN discussion on Where Did Personal Computing Go Wrong and HN Discussion on What I want from the Internet

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