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While the computer industry offers more products than ever before, the vast majority represent incremental improvements or product refinements, "not leaps and bounds," contends Mitchell Kapor, the creator of the top-selling Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. Kapor believes the industry has failed to develop products that would make technology easier to use. Says he: "The industry is shooting at the wrong target. It continues to emphasize power at the expense of usability. It's paying too much attention to the engine and not enough to the dashboard...
...ranks of those who would dismiss the virus threat as a Chicken Little scare are getting smaller with every outbreak. Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development and now chairman of ON Technology, became a believer when some of his associates were infected. "It isn't the fall of Western civilization," says Kapor, "but the problem is real and the threat is serious." Scientific American's Dewdney has had a similar change of heart. "At first I thought these new outbreaks were much ado about nothing," he says. "But I'm now convinced that they are a bigger threat than...
...Mavens' Kosher Court," once scheduled to open this winter, will not sling pastrami and pickles until after Passover, according to Dershowitz and local attorney Marcus Weiss, two of the several local businessmen in the venture. Others include Mitch Kapor of the Lotus software company, and attorney Harvey Silverglate...
...When Mitch Kapor, 36, the computer-software wunderkind, resigned as chairman of Lotus Development Corp. last year, he said he was leaving to "explore other endeavors." So what has the former disk jockey and transcendental- meditation instructor come up with for an encore? Opening a delicatessen only a matzoh ball's throw from Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. "I see it as a social service," says Brooklyn-born Kapor. "The deli is for anyone who complains about not being able to find a decent pastrami sandwich in Boston...
...Kapor is not the only prominent pastrami lover in the new enterprise. Among his five "mostly Jewish and homesick" partners is Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Quips Kapor, who is looking for a new niche in the software industry: "At least I won't go hungry in the meantime...