
The Evolution of Software 9 17
with anything (person or machine) by typing in only capital
letters (and expressing a gloss on the content by typing marks
of punctuation sideways [:)]) is unnatural and confusing. The
so-called advanced technologies are the basic ones.
Graphics aren't decoration; multimedia isn't optional. They
are parts of our lives~and have been for millennia. Anyone
who feels that all the basic software has been written is living
in a two-dimensional, text-based world that is very quiet and
still. Adventuresome people and those whose jobs have re-
quired assistance from computers have adapted to live in that
world. ...