Haskell chipmunk basic interpeter tv#

Haskell chipmunk basic interpeter tv#

Most people just use them as glorified TV sets and newspapers, mass media delivering people. Just because you have a computer or 'smart' phone, doesn't mean you know anything about its operation, purpose, and purposes you can put it to. Illiteracy, a silly and dangerous ignorance. Just an aspect of everything, and not to know this is computer This book is therefore devoted to the premiseĬomputers are simply a necessary and enjoyable part of life, It's as if people couldn't tellĪpart camera from exposure meter or tripod, or car from truck Lumped together as 'computer stuff,' indistinct and beyond There are so many different things, and theirĭifferences are so important yet to the lay public they are Anything withīuttons or lights can be palmed off on the layman as aĬomputer. Is the public sense of confusion and ignorance.

This book is a measure of desperation, so serious and abysmal Notions develop about computers operating in fixed ways-and To explain things or answer your questions. The people who know about computers often seem unwilling You hear moreĪnd more about computers, but to most people it's just one bigīlur. This situation does not seem to be improving. Unfortunately, due to ridiculous historical circumstances,Ĭomputers have been made a mystery to most of the world. Fascinating time capsule, political tract about use of computers to control you (CYBERCRUD as he puts it).Īny nitwit can understand computers, and many do. The first personal computer book (before the Altair came out!), though the PCC Newsletters predates it (and he mentions them). Read it from either end, there's two coherent books written back-on-back like an Ace Double, happily you don't have to turn your monitor upside down. Computer Lib/Dream Machines, by Ted Nelson.Someone has finally uploaded a (possibly legal?) copy of to archive: