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Some of the greatest minds in high tech have given up the basics of internet life. Kevin Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine and the Long Now Foundation, reports that computer programming sage Donald Knuth no longer does e-mail. What happens when Knuth, the author of seminal trilogy The Art of Computer Programming, won't even participate in one of the world's most popular uses for computer programs (i.e., e-mail)? Apparently, he gets more done. Another programming genius, free software revolutionary Richard Stallman, refuses to use the web. He uses text-based browser Lynx and e-mail to retrieve pages he wants to see. Now Kelly is asking what happens to highly technical people like Knuth and Stallman who eschew popular computer technologies. More »
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