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by redsummer
3383 days ago
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If anyone could find the original Levy article, I would be interested. GUIs create a sort of 'Learned helplessness', where people are deliberately handicapped in their knowledge. It's as if you never learnt to read, and relied on an app which reads text with a speech synthesiser. |
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That is the PDF version.
https://archive.org/details/mac_MacWorld_9011_November_1990
Page 69 is where it starts, IIRC.
It was very contralesional when it came out, The PC had DOS and the Mac had the GUI before Windows 3.X got very popular.
The irony now is that everyone uses a GUI, is it just the Mac GUI that makes people stupid or is it every GUI out there?
I'm trying to teach friends and family members to fill out forms online. While it is very easy for me, for them it is not so easy. If they want a job, they have to fill out forms on a website.