>>chagha+(OP)
Not sure about this website, but the original essay by Mark Weiser should be required reading for HN crowd IMO:

http://homes.di.unimi.it/~boccignone/GiuseppeBoccignone_webp...

>>eswat+vp
http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2841313

>>gregfj+lL
> acquiesce to jarring, rude, and disruptive technologies that foster a passive, frantic, reactive, unreflective, and anxious consciousness.

I totally agree with this and love the calm technology principle as well. I'd like to draw attention to the "Time Well Spent" project started by Google's "product philosopher," as I think it's very similar and equally as important. http://timewellspent.io/

>>falcol+Z7
This is a very old argument that goes way back to the beginning of the entire field with Douglas Engelbart and his augmented computing project. At the time he was an outsider who thought the future of computing was enabling humans to do more as opposed to creating a general AI that would do it for us.

Some interesting reading: https://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Per...

>>throwa+HP
Singular "they" is attested back to the 14th century. (Note that this would actually be Middle English!) It met a lot of resistance in the 19th century by various prescriptive grammar books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Trend_to_prescri...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

>>drjaso+hq1
Fascinating, here's a good demo video: https://youtu.be/psWBaxtK19g?t=1m11s