Morlocks vs. the Eloi

So once again I've Stumbled Upon a website that I really enjoyed reading. Its main theme is the evolution from teletype to command line interfaces up through the GUI OS of 1999. It was written by a programmer who says he has worked on many different platforms, but also says his article is subjective. Therefore, read on with that bit of info in your mind.

Snagged from InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine

Contemporary culture is a two-tiered system, like the Morlocks and the Eloi in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, except that it's been turned upside down. In The Time Machine the Eloi were an effete upper class, supported by lots of subterranean Morlocks who kept the technological wheels turning. But in our world it's the other way round. The Morlocks are in the minority, and they are running the show, because they understand how everything works. The much more numerous Eloi learn everything they know from being steeped from birth in electronic media directed and controlled by book-reading Morlocks. So many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands.

Morlocks, who have the energy and intelligence to comprehend details, go out and master complex subjects and produce Disney-like Sensorial Interfaces so that Eloi can get the gist without having to strain their minds or endure boredom.

Yeah, sounds like some people I know. And also, there's a bit of my job in there as well.

Oh yeah, Happy New Year!