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by rchaud 1502 days ago
Naturally organized people built VisiCalc, and yet us mere mortals were still able to make use of electronic spreadsheets. The blog author is needlessly pigeonholing people because he thinks the knowledge graph is silly.
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There are exceptions, and it doesn't invalidate the article's premise. Spreadsheets are a huge deal, agreed. At this point they are like a general purpose visual programming language, rather than an "organize my thoughts" tool.