Whilst George Orwell was predicting what the World might be like in 1984, in the real 1984 a small Californian company called MacIntosh released their first personal computer. This is a review of that P.C. by a guy called John C. Dvorak:
“The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse”. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices.”
And boy, was he right. I don’t know if the mouse ever caught on, but John Dvorak is alive and well, living in a cave in Wisconsin and watching silent movies on Beta Max. Nobody knows what happened to Mac computers and their crazy ideas. Maybe history books will tell us one day.
Of course, this isn’t true – John Dvorak is a highly successful man and a poly-math of sorts. Like all of us do from time to time, he made one comment that history showed to be slightly wrong, but we thank him for the amusement factor and we are big fans. After all, “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” As Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915) said.
If you are interested in the great things that John Dvorak has done, please look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak