Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s: A rejection of the rejection of the 1970s.

posted on 01/03/2012 07:04 #history #developers

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Whether or not we like it, we are products of what came before. I would like to look at the recent stuff coming out of Apple with the same optimism as James Hague. There is some interesting stuff, but how hard it is for me to forget all the things I’ve seen. And I may have rose-tinted glasses; after all, I wasn’t there when it happened. Let me say this, though. If you want to blow your mind, go to your CS department’s library and look through the books printed before 1980. You’ll be surprised how much diversity, hope and optimism there was, back when our technical aesthetics were completely enslaved to the 1970s.

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