Using Apple’s beautiful iMac desktop PC as an example of what is wrong with computers, William Buxton, chief scientist for graphics software developer Alias/Wavefront and associate professor in the department of computer science at the University of Toronto, sounded a potent plaint about how there actually is a lot less to computer technology than meets the eye.
Alternating between a slide of a 1982 computer and trio of iMacs in tangerine and other bright shades, Buxton said, “If Rip Van Wrinkle went to sleep in 1982 and woke up today, he’d be able to drive modern computers with no problem, because they’re essentially unchanged. There’d just be more crap on it.”
Think of that next time you hit Control-Alt-Delete, which first was used in the late ’70s.
![A Carpentersville man remains in Lake County Jail as Thursday, held on sexual assault charges after he reportedly groped a co-worker. According to a Lake Zurich Police Department news release, officers responded April 19 to the 600 block of America Court on a call of a sexual assault. Officers said a man at the assisted living complex, who was identified as Everado Cardenas, of the 100 block of Bolz Road in Carpentersville, was accused of “[grabbing] the breast and genitals of another employee of the business without her consent,” according to the release. Cardenas, 53, was arrested at the scene. […]](https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2018/08/23/7XZEANKDMZBJLMO6IIT6OFUP6M.jpg?w=535 "A Carpentersville man remains in Lake County Jail as Thursday, held on sexual assault charges after he reportedly groped a co-worker. According to a Lake Zurich Police Department news release, officers responded April 19 to the 600 block of America Court on a call of a sexual assault. Officers said a man at the assisted living complex, who was identified as Everado Cardenas, of the 100 block of Bolz Road in Carpentersville, was accused of “[grabbing] the breast and genitals of another employee of the business without her consent,” according to the release. Cardenas, 53, was arrested at the scene. […]")
