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Appears that the cool in modern design is just ignore every HCI rule that was build in the last 40 years.

Every generation has to figure things out for themselves, which is why everything that was old is eventually new again. I've already seen articles describing how the older Millennials are starting to tire of city renting life and desire to move to the suburbs .

citation:

http://www.bentley.edu/prepare...

There is so much wrong here that I'm not sure I'd ever have the time to go through it all with you. So, I'll just keep my response to the topic of the Federal Reserve Bank leaving the gold standard. Aside from distorting the market for gold, pining the value of federal reserve notes to a weight of gold limited the Federal Reserve Bank's ability to influence the money supply. As Scott Sumner has demonstrated, not addressing a shortage in the money supply contributed greatly to the Great Depression.

For more on Scott Sumner's research and thoughts see:
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/
https://faculty.bentley.edu/details.asp?uname=ssumner

This term isn't in 'True Names' as far as I can tell:

http://web.archive.org/web/20051127010734/http://home.comcast.net/~kngjon/truename/truename.html

though of course a similar concept is there. Gibson actually names the 'Cyberspace Seven' matrix simulator in 'Burning Chrome', a couple of years before 'Neuromancer':

http://web.bentley.edu/empl/c/rcrooks/courses/350s96/gibson.html

• Babson College Wellesley
• Bentley College Waltham
• Berklee College of Music Boston
• Boston Architectural Center Boston
• Boston College Newton
• Boston Conservatory, The Boston
• Boston University Boston
• Brandeis University Waltham
• Bunker Hill Community College Boston
• Cambridge College Cambridge
• Emerson College Boston
• Emmanuel College Boston
• Fisher College Boston
• Harvard University Cambridge
• Hellenic College Brookline
• Lesley College Cambridge
• MIT Cambridge
• Massachusetts College of Art Boston
• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
  and Allied Health Sciences Boston
• Mount Ida College Newton
• New England Conservatory of Music Boston
• New England School of Law Boston
• Northeastern University Boston
• Pine Manor College Chestnut Hill
• Radcliffe College Cambridge
• Simmons College Boston
• Suffolk University Boston
• Tufts University Medford
• Wellesley College Wellesley
• Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston
• Wheelock College Boston

Most colleges required students to have computers by the mid 90s, and a great many required them in the early 90s. The internet was created by universities (and the government), so internet in the classroom was hardly a pipe dream. On the contrary, it began in the classroom.

A quick check of Bentley's Web Site shows it to be a business college. Can't imagine why a business college would think it necessary for it's graduates to have a firm grasp on the skills necessary to operate a computer. Although I must concede this is entirely possible without requiring each student to own his own computer, the requirement is no more inconceivable back then than it is today.