Simple tools and personal-computer autonomy · Proposed air date:
Longtime computer user Carl compares software icons with a language that demands memorizing thousands of symbols and observes that experts still return to keyboard shortcuts for speed. Dr. Dave agrees that feature bloat and glitz can bury the elegant basics, but he also resists replacing the personal computer with a remote service because the PC revolution gave individuals local autonomy.
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Proposed recording date: 2007-10-06. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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