Arrgh! Computers are stupid. We have computers now that are so fast compared to what we used to have that almost everything should be instantaneous. “boot up” time should be less than a human would notice.

Absolutely every task should complete immediately. Anything that really must take longer can run in the background in a way that can be killed immediately. Programs shouldn’t need a long initialization period, because initialization should all happen before run time. Applications should be stored on disk as an image of what they are when they are running.

Seriously, word processing on my acorn electron was faster than with Word, yet the computer is at least 2000 times faster. This does not make sense.