> Heh. Ok. But is this the same thing really? I mean, how many forms of input are there? We've tried the obvious ones and the keyboard just sticks with us.
I guess it's not the same thing in that it's at least obvious what one could do instead of a 640 KB limit (just install more memory), but I still think there might be some life to the analogy. I agree with you that there's no obvious substitute for the keyboard, but that to me says only that it is a local maximum—with a potential further global maximum to be discovered, probably not by obvious changes, and necessarily not by perturbations to what we have already—which might (or, I'll certainly grant, might not) be bettered.
I guess it's not the same thing in that it's at least obvious what one could do instead of a 640 KB limit (just install more memory), but I still think there might be some life to the analogy. I agree with you that there's no obvious substitute for the keyboard, but that to me says only that it is a local maximum—with a potential further global maximum to be discovered, probably not by obvious changes, and necessarily not by perturbations to what we have already—which might (or, I'll certainly grant, might not) be bettered.