Source: Hacker News
Article note: There are some interesting exceptions to the rule (in both directions), but the broad distinction between consumptive and creative use of technology is something we should be way more careful about as a society.
I've been harping on the difference between general-purposes computers as devices for empowerment (Kay's "Bicycle for the mind" bit is clever, especially in context, even if it was later and more famously used by Steve Jobs who went on to be one of the people most to blame for ruining it), and locked down media-consumption machines as devices for coercion for more than a decade.
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