[dorkmind]

I've actually wondered if a True Hipster (tm) ever thought of starting a company to develop software for vintage Apple hardware emulated by one of the many open source choices available. The thinking here is that such software affords a higher degree of reliability since the platform is totally dead.

The thinking for a long time was that computer software was compute-limited, that all applications were as intensive as video games, audio / video editing, and 3D rendering. In reality, people may pay for innovative interfaces and data formats when they organize their work in a new way. Software could be used in an "offensive" way to take entire industries as interlocking roles within organizations. Each of these roles, save manual labor and janitorial work, benefits from education, and the nature of that education is to develop certain patterns of thought & behavior.

Software could be designed with the educational background of the user in mind. I'm speaking mostly of enterprise software here, but it could be applied to CAD shops, publishing, anyone who has an education and uses a computer. I'm not talking about Mechanical Turk here.

The idea is to take education philosophy as the common software for all education computer-enhanced roles and design software for educated people that exposes stuff like

    - the ideal way to learn the structure of the software data model

    - text and point-and-click data input and output

    - data processing language