If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.
Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.
A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
People constantly face problems they've never seen before, and they have to solve them somehow. So a million people come up with a million solutions that are just a little bit different. If computing is being done by fewer resources, there will be enormous security gains by pushing things into standard practices.
I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.