[smitty1e]

> We need to grow up from our RTFM tendencies and build technology that people can intuit how to use without a manual.

Concur to a point here. But these technologies don't drive the bell curve of the population.

This conversation could be repackaged as: "Why doesn't the distribution drift toward the technologically savvy tail?"

Sorry. People don't scale. As popularity grows, all drifts toward the mean.

You can have smartphones, but you will inevitably ooze toward a small number of providers making commodities out of the users.

Sites like HN will be the outlier.

Technological gravity, boss.