Answer is not to further diminish write privileges or make computation even more one-way as the author almost insinuates. It's to realize that Computers Haven't Happened Yet. You do not have Computing. We are pre-literate for the medium of computing. Me, formally trained programmer of 15 years, I am illiterate. Holy objects like Lisp for all their beauty should be regarded as Roman numerals. We're in a Dark Age.
Sleek chamfered aluminum hologram display hand detection "ai agent" self-warring robodog wearable lapel customer service chatbot camera etc... should feel like rattling oxcarts on cobblestone.
Is it innovation, or is it productizing your illiteracy, deepening the condition? Is it innovation, or is it zombie forced "mass adoption" of computing equivalent to hand crank washing bucket, or even just a society treating Reading and Writing like 1950s product appliances with a single button... as if every book came only with 3 words you were allowed to think about or read, productizing your illiteracy, deepening the condition?
Is it innovation, or is it well intentioned 20 somethings doing sleepy lost soul cosplay product aesthetic pastime parent pleasing, productizing your illiteracy, deepening the condition? Design as pickpocket handwave attention choreography sleep spell, productizing your illiteracy, deepening the condition. Design not just a "how it works" but as a flattering mirror. You will not notice your illiteracy you will drink the cosmopolitan veneer you will like it.
There is a real unborn Renaissance just sitting there, if the right team came along to invent the multiplication sign, or even just ten new Impressionisms in the time of computing. Or at the very least to try to alarm clock the society about this, to seek to incubate and boom a literary humanism a Composition <-> Comprehension feedback loop but for computing. When was the last time it was all obviously this wide open?
