EDW387 [0] (which doesn't have NN0 or NN1 pseudonyms either) seems to be pretty clear about what the "anti-intellectualism" comment was about.
>The undisguised appeal to anti-intellectualism and anti-individualism was frightening. He was talking about his "augmented knowledge workshop" and I was constantly reminded of Manny Lehman's vigorous complaint about the American educational system that is extremely "knowledge oriented", failing to do justice to the fact that one of the main objects of education is the insight that makes quite a lot of knowledge superfluous.
Wish the author went into more detail on why now may be different than during Kay/Engelbart's time.
Why does it have to be on the back? Some old Android phones had a trackball (or an optical sensor like on a mouse) to be used as a sort of cursor. The Palm Pre had a small touch sensitive area below the screen that could be used for OS specific gestures (much better integrated than what Android used the trackball for IMHO).
All of these ideas are pointing to the issues in the use of a touchscreen as input (imprecise, blocks screen during use, etc), yet for some reason they keep getting used (and even taking over regular buttons).
I hope that this decision is being tested by the companies HCI departments, but I worry that marketing is deciding that changing the input would be too much of a risk (or cause fragmentation).
Reminds me of the "Future of Programming" presentation given by Bret Victor [0]. Bret's talk is much more focused on the concepts that were created during the early period of CS, but abandoned(more or less) over the years rather than the major concepts that have persisted.
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think [smartwatches] are a pretty neat idea." - A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
I could see a pump being included in each module. In a modular design such as this the flow rate through each waterblock would need to be guaranteed with many different possible restrictions.
Additionally, if the pumps were run serially, it could add some redundancy to the cooling loop (especially benefitial since each unit's pump might not have the same MTBF)
>The undisguised appeal to anti-intellectualism and anti-individualism was frightening. He was talking about his "augmented knowledge workshop" and I was constantly reminded of Manny Lehman's vigorous complaint about the American educational system that is extremely "knowledge oriented", failing to do justice to the fact that one of the main objects of education is the insight that makes quite a lot of knowledge superfluous.
Wish the author went into more detail on why now may be different than during Kay/Engelbart's time.
[0] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/E...