Remember when softwares are stored in floppy. It took a while to load. Then every application came with different behavior and key bindings.
The computers are faster, can do more stuff, and monitors have higher frame rates. But for many applications that aren't games latency and non-responsive UIs are a growing problem.
The article argues that keyboard is a better interaction hardware than mouse. Google Maps doesn't work exactly as he wanted. Popups everywhere, etc.
I couldn't type up handwritten notes reliably, because half a page in, I would fill up the buffer and characters would get dropped.
I don't think I could have typoed this, there must be a spell checker somewhere that I haven't disabled...
15 years ago I would have been waiting 20 minutes for a single song to download on a hard wired PC.