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Computer Archeology

A collection of 3 issues

What if a Computer Was a Walk in the Woods? Why Should an AI Computer Be Like a Desktop Computer? And More on Mark Weiser.

Recent advances in AI have given rise to "power users" who push the boundaries of human-computer interaction. Moving beyond simple prompts, they develop personalized workflows that treat AI as a cognitive partner. Their practices hint at a future where we question what a computer even is.

“The Fashionable Negligence of the Day” and the Three Body Problem: Mark Burgess On Our Industry-Wide Problems With Configuration Management (Yet...the Stock Market Still Works?).

More than 30 years after CFEngine, Mark Burgess is still thinking about configuration management. He has a new post on configuration and how it can't be made easy, and in this article I look through some of his more provocative and interesting statements.

Mark Weiser: The World Is Not a Desktop

Mark Weiser argues that computers should be like childhood memories and therefore be designed to be forgotten, yet easily recalled when needed. In his paper, he advocates for computers to be as invisible as any other good tool; that we don't need virtual reality, intelligent agents, or multimedia.