Tech:Then & Now

This is further to my note on Technology: Then & Now: As F. Chisholm says it?s the ?kitschy lowbrow tastes of the public? in contrast to the sophisticated highbrow tastes of the uber?rich as to who really influences technology development today. It seems the uber-rich are winning. But do we need to be at their mercy or can we ?rebel? through programming (the rise of the Raspberry Pi for instance) or is this just for people in the know as it once was for the hobbyist/experimenter of yesteryear. In our hurried lives, to stay above water, we want the ?simplified? way of using computer technology ? to do what we want, when we want. Whether one is a software or hardware person seems to me to be irrelevant except if you are knowledgeable about technology, i.e., know how it works. I used to know how my Coleco ADAM worked but I don?t know how my Dell Inspiron 15R works. Nor do I really are. It does what I want it to do. Well, most of the time! Is this not what all of us want? Murray--