{"id":795,"date":"2011-02-13T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T05:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/?p=795"},"modified":"2011-02-13T22:48:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T05:48:12","slug":"uli-on-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/uli-on-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Uli on learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2011\/02\/12\/uli_on_learning\">Uli on learning<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Uli Kusterer: <a href=\"http:\/\/orangejuiceliberationfront.com\/theyll-die-out-eventually\/\">They\u2019ll die out eventually\u2026<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just like people in the original Mac days thought users would not understand keyboards, I hear people today saying that users will never understand multi-tasking, will never understand what an \u2018application\u2019 or an \u2018app\u2019 or a \u2018web site\u2019 are, and how they differ and how they are the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth remembering: <em>people learn<\/em>. Think how fast the web was adopted. Think how fast cell phones went from nothing to everywhere. Very young children know how to install apps from the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>As a species, humans are incredibly resourcesful and adaptable \u2014 that\u2019s the key to our success. And today most of our problems come from way too much success. Which is a good problem to have (better than the alternative, at least).<\/p>\n<p>So anyone who\u2019s worried that people won\u2019t be able to learn new things should just stop worrying. For humans in general, learning new things is as natural and happy-making as sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/\">inessential.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uli on learning: &#8220; Uli Kusterer: They\u2019ll die out eventually\u2026: Just like people in the original Mac days thought users would not understand keyboards, I hear people today saying that users will never understand multi-tasking, will never understand what an \u2018application\u2019 or an \u2018app\u2019 or a \u2018web site\u2019 are, and how they differ and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maccconsulting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p834Wu-cP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mclasen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}