Computer operating systems and architectures try to tell us how to organize, think and store. Complexity, frustration, and confusion rise up to get in the way of what we are trying to do. The digital revolution is stalled behind a logjam of what we have come to expect and know.
The original Amiga brought a new revolution to the world: audio, video and graphics wrapped up in an elegant, common sense design. It worked the way people worked and made sense. It shattered expectations, presumptions and the common knowledge of the time.
Sixteen years later Amiga intends to do the same by creating technology that empowers the individual and puts them back in control, gets out of their way, and works the way they work. It will be technology that makes sense.
My life isn't a set of files stored in a set of folders. My choices aren't limited to a bar of nonsense icons. My world isn't constrained by a window with funny little arrows at the top and sides of it. Why should my computer be that way?
Amiga the company, and Amigans--the developers and users--have always been special, pushing the boundaries back and refusing to settle for second best. Some fear change, and the uncertainty that it brings. Others relish it, charging headlong forwards. The great majority just waits to see what change will bring for them.
I think this change will bring a better way of life.
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