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Yeah, another universe where you have wizards who know how to fold the paper correctly to make the ambient computational environment do things.

Hard pass.

Folk computing for me is a hardware/software layer stripped off the commercial abstractions that hide the inherent simplicity of the medium.

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> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I thought it was a pithy comment that quickly indicated that, like emacs or vi versus pico or nano versus notepad, that this seems like a system that would segment people into lusers, users, and powerusers even harder than modern computing interfaces.

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