Re: @ Ian Joyner
True many CPUs are embedded systems controlling all sorts of things. Yes a lot of computers are still purchased by business and government. IBM and Microsoft would have kept it that way, but Apple and Jobs let the genie out of the bottle. And yes it was done by changing the paradigm from computers controlling people to work for the company to people in control of people.
>>(The OP's screed about "computers controlling people" versus "people controlling computers" is equally ridiculous, but who has time to take that mess apart?)<<
It's not ridiculous at all. It is the basis of modern and widely available and used computing. See Doug Englebart's "Mother of all presentations", etc. You need to see the wood for the trees. You keep coming here and looking at individual trees. You won't have time to take anything apart because you won't be able to - it's not an intractable problem, it's impossible, so the only way you can do it is attempt to bury it in nonsense.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
