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Lawrence Dickson wrote...
>There has to be a way out. I for one am hoping to
>avoid spending my declining years fighting an ever
>expanding river of gobbledegook whenever I want to
>build something. Even if I have to abandon the
>computing field altogether.
This gells with me. I too like building things and find that the 
available tools and components tend to get in the way. Try building a 
website. What a mess! But it's the commercial and not the technical 
realities that make the mess. We need commercial brilliance to match the 
technical.

I believe the best opportunity is Donald Norman's notion of "information 
appliances" - simple, compact hardware units with dedicated function, 
that connect together hot (without crashing), and end the idea of one 
machine that does everything for everyone. Seems a good fit to CPA/CSP to 
me.

Ian


Dr. Ian Robert East         School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
ireast@brookes.ac.uk                            Oxford Brookes University
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