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Originally Posted by wodin
Ken Thompson was either very short sighted or was very afraid for his status in geekdom. I'd vote for short sighted.
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Much like the Singularity, sometimes it's virtully impossible for even brilliant people to see what's going to happen beyond some revolutionary, paradigm-shifting change.
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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Incapable OR unwilling. Pity is, that since computers evolved beyond command line a lot of people got one who rather shouldn't have done so.
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But then again, some people refuse to see it even in hindsight....
Seriously though, I felt the same way as a support person at the time. AOL was the Devil for letting those lusers out of their cages!
But in fairness, we would not have the diversity of online services and information we do if the evolution of the Internet was left exclusively to tech geeks.