We are still in the Middle Ages of IT

formortals@thesophist.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:35:00 GMT

The above video makes me laugh every time I see it. Everything in it is a perfect parody of our industry... from the clueless user to the help desk worker struggling to be patient and professional, to the fact that the object under discussion is far too hard to use. We have come a long way folks, from a technical angle, but we are still in the 1970's in terms of deploying usable systems. All of the "Web 2.0", AJAX, and so on (preceded by client/server, mainframes, green screens, etc.) in the world does not make computer applications easier to use.

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Justin James' Critical Thinking

We are still in the Middle Ages of IT