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Chock full of golden material and contrast/comparable points to today:

"If you want to know what ordinary people will be doing with computers in ten years, just walk around the CS department at a good university. Whatever they're doing, you'll be doing. "

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It would have been better to walk around a Visual Effects facility.

Lots of 3D. Face swapping / face filters. Photo / Video retouching. Background Tracking, face tracking, motion capture. 3D scanning (with photos).

It is quite interesting that Weta / ILM were at the forefront of what happens in general computing.

Your point being that this is completely untrue? Normal people have absolutely not learned how to program/automate using computers. All companies I've seen from the inside either use excel for everything or have dedicated personnel for automation. Excel is a good step but it still requires a lot of manual work.

I think it's true, just meant to be a little less literal. Things like communicating over the internet, taking notes and yes, automation are all useful. However, when they start, the UX is academic and inaccessible to a "normal person". The arg is that it takes ~10 years to construct the correct abstractions so that the normal people can do those useful things.

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