A couple of days ago I made reference to a KQED Forum show on the 40th anniversary of the Personal Computer. In listening closer to that program, a couple of the guests made comments about the “empty calories” applications and devices that we in the computer field like to create. The following is a transcript from that dialogue:
Michael Krasny: Just something that came up…Brian Cooley mentioned…and that is how a lot of the calories are going into things like Twitter and Flickr now.
Brian Cooley: Yeah, we’re spending the effort — you know we talked about the vision Doug had for this being a platform for greater collaborative reasoning and problem solving. We are using the connectivity and…the power of the PC in enormous ways of (quote) “thinking” and communicating. But they’re much more self-obsessed. We’re spending so much time on social networking and all kinds of relatively unimportant stuff like YouTube videos and Yelp restaurant reviews. There is an enormous bulk of calories being spent on this kind of problem solving of a very tiny, irrelevant nature.
Recent Comments