dleslie · November 11, 2013 19:58
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 What I saw in the Xerox PARC technology was the caveman interface, 
 you point and you grunt. A massive winding down, regressing away 
 from language, in order to address the technological nervousness 
 of the user. Users wanted to be infantilized, to return to a 
 pre-linguistic condition in the using of computers, and the Xerox 
 PARC technology`s primary advantage was that it allowed users to 
 address computers in a pre-linguistic way. This was to my mind a 
 terribly socially retrograde thing to do, and I have not changed 
 my mind about that.

 "The Encryption Wars: An Interview with Eben Moglen" 
 Cabinet Megazine, Issue 1, 2000
 http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_moglen_1.php
	What I saw in the Xerox PARC technology was the caveman interface,
	you point and you grunt. A massive winding down, regressing away
	from language, in order to address the technological nervousness
	of the user. Users wanted to be infantilized, to return to a
	pre-linguistic condition in the using of computers, and the Xerox
	PARC technology`s primary advantage was that it allowed users to
	address computers in a pre-linguistic way. This was to my mind a
	terribly socially retrograde thing to do, and I have not changed
	my mind about that.

	"The Encryption Wars: An Interview with Eben Moglen"
	Cabinet Megazine, Issue 1, 2000
	http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/i_moglen_1.php