Reducing my PIM/Knowledge/Writing Tools

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 3, 2007 at 08:02 PM

Ike Washington wrote:
>So, we spend so much time in these forums. So,
>we spend too much time installing and uninstalling software. Something similar,
>though not as dramatic, must have happened - oh, the arguments about which parchment
>to use - after the introduction of the moveable type printing press in the
>1450s…

I think there’s an issue of complexity, scale and rate of change; i.e. what you call “not as dramatic” reflects a difference in quantity as well as quality of the change experienced. To construct a new printing press or font would take significantly longer than to develop a new version of a modern program. It is different to be changing tools every several years than every few months.

alx