Scottish resident SF/F author (he/him/they/them). Three times Hugo Award winner. Does not play well with Nazis. Abolish the monarchy!
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@nightsky “touchscreens everywhere” isn’t an aesthetic choice, it’s a cost-of-goods choice: which adds more to the cost of a physical product, a bunch of bespoke embossed buttons/keys for specific tasks, or a single mass-produced touchscreen?
It’s the same reason modern electronics uses embedded microcontrollers rather than actual properly designed task-specific gate arrays.
@dgerard Do not mess with HP, they have the *real* orbital weather control lasers! /s
@m @dgerard @o7___o7 @techtakes Back in 2007 I was a guest of honour at Penguicon. ESR was there and we got talking. As of 2007 he was all-in on all the insane “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and islamophobia. If you’d taken his word salad and substituted “jews” for “muslims” Julius Streicher would have hired him as a columnist in a split second. (That’s when I added ESR to my list of “people I will not share a platform with”.)
He was somewhat less cray-cray in 2003.
@BlueMonday1984 It’s going to be like Alves dos Reis all over again, isn’t it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alves/_dos/_Reis