My favourite part is still the 'demo' of tying a brick to a pen to prove the power of augmentation via de-augmentation
Which would sound like someone whining about how the bigger kids are running too fast, but when I finally get fed up and fix the code, half the time I’m the one who spots the underlying problem that makes a big difference. Accidental complexity kills invention. Every time we make a better tool, we reduce the accidental complexity.
If we ever figure out how to draw or write directly from the motor cortex, no hands involved, that will be a new Enlightenment.
If we did figure out drawing or writing without hands, I think that would be a noticeable, but still small improvement.
Much like with coding, the insight/information /s rate is very rarely keyboard limited.
A good programmer switching to Vim may help them a bit, and it can be a strong enough effect that lots of people will want to switch to better tools like Vim
But I doubt there's room enough in there to extract a whole new enlightenment from :)
Once I know what code needs to be written, I still need hours to actually type the damn thing out (not to mention the constant typos, deletions, reformatting, and so on). One of my loftier startup ideas is a Neuralink-PC interface that projects the code in your head to code on a screen.
I really hope I see it in my lifetime.
I hope so too, please don't let me stop you! :)
But I know that other people do not work this way, so 'draw myself a picture' is still a gating condition on writing the code.