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Mossberg out: Last column is posted

May 25, 2017

Posted by Chris Roush

Walt Mossberg
Walt Mossberg

Technology journalist Walt Mossberg, who is retiring, has written his last column for The Verge and Recode and begins by reminiscing about how it all began.

Mossberg writes, “This is my last weekly column for The Verge and Recodethe last weekly column I plan to write anywhere. I’ve been doing these almost every week since 1991, starting at The Wall Street Journal, and during that time, I’ve been fortunate enough to get to know the makers of the tech revolution, and to ruminate — and sometimes to fulminate — about their creations.

“Now, as I prepare to retire at the end of that very long and world-changing stretch, it seems appropriate to ponder the sweep of consumer technology in that period, and what we can expect next.

“Let me start by revising the oft-quoted first line of my first Personal Technology column in the Journal on October 17, 1991: ‘Personal computers are just too hard to use, and it’s not your fault.’ It was true then, and for many, many years thereafter. Not only were the interfaces confusing, but most tech products demanded frequent tweaking and fixing of a type that required more technical skill than most people had, or cared to acquire. The whole field was new, and engineers weren’t designing products for normal people who had other talents and interests.”

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