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By purposefully designing our software-based products to be more human and forgiving, we can automatically make them more inclusive, more class- and color-blind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alan Cooper, <u>The Inmates are Running the Asylum<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s where <a href=\"http:\/\/snowedin.net\/planetinfo\">my friends<\/a> and I come in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The obnoxious behavior and obscure interaction that software-based products exhibit is institutionalizing what I call &#8220;software apartheid,&#8221; where otherwise normal people are fobidden from entering the job market and participating in society because they cannot use computers effectively. 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