Last week I proposed that generality was a defining feature of PCs, and that it needed some attention as such. My appeal for inspiring suggestions about how to prioritize and proceed with this project didn't yield any brilliant or useful new ideas, so far, but there is lots more to say.
Computers are lousy guessers.
That about sums up the main frustration that all computer users, not just PC persons, have felt. Misplace a letter, space or semi-colon, or give a general clue to a program about what's wanted, and the result is likely to be a CRT's equivalent of a blank stare, or some wild excursion into the irrelevant. The cutting edge of bad guesses is currently the search engine on the Internet. Hardware and software still only fake it clumsily. Yet, that is what we most desperately need them to respond to, if the next major Generality Hurdle is to be crossed.