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Sherry Turkle wrote her study of the culture of computing, The Second Self, "on an Apple II computer that had, quite literally, been torn bare."1 Its...
Even her word processor felt close to the machine; it required her to use "a formal language of nested delimiters" that could be easily "translated into electrical impulses." No one could expect the average user — who had, just recently, bought their first computer — to hold the entire system in their head. This, Emmerich asserted, would prevent the "average application engineer" from being "slowed down by the complexity introduced through distribution."
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