<div dir="ltr">What ticks me off about this is the general cluelessness. It bugs me when people assume that because digital creativity, elegance, and beauty look a little different they are somehow less valid. Unix is now over 40 years old, and many of us still use the original tools created by Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Alfred Aho, and countless others. Those tools are still working on the very latest and spiffiest smartphones. If Mr. Cohen can't be bothered to dig into the stuff he uses every day, that's a failing on his part.<div><br></div><div>I'm not necessarily a techno-utopian, but YouTube now means that even some kid working with his friends in his divorced dad's basement can make a hit TV show. Heck, sites like <a href="http://vine.co">vine.co</a> and <a href="http://imgur.com">imgur.com</a> mean that it might need to be only a few seconds long. Twitter means that even a shut-in Palestinian woman might-could have access to millions of readers. The time when you need to pass some editor's or TV executive's whim in order to reach an audience is past. Roger Cohen might think that's bad, but I'm excited about it.</div><div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:23 AM, James Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com" target="_blank">James.Taylor@eastcobbgroup.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">After having spent over 30 years working with them, I think I qualify as an old white guy that hates and fears computers....<br>
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>>> Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> 2/23/2016 9:19 AM >>><br>
<div><div class="h5">Op-ed in this morning's NYT. (<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/opinion/smartphone-era-politics.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Froger-cohen" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/opinion/smartphone-era-politics.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Froger-cohen</a><br>
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* Computers are just fancy TV sets.<br>
* The internet is corroding my privileged position as a Prize Pundit<br>
* I can't learn anything new 'cause I'm Sad and Old<br>
* You kids get off my lawn.<br>
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I sincerely hope that as my generation retires and dies off, the next one<br>
will become more sensible about this stuff. Just maybe, they could change<br>
their world for the better.<br>
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-- CHS<br>
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