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Our conceptual dark age of man-machine interaction
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- ehsanul 17y agoI found myself lost in the Carver Mead interview linked in the blog post instead: http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/People/CarverMead.htm http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/People/CarverMead.h... Pretty convincing for someone, such as myself, with almost no knowledge of quantum physics, and hence extremely confused as to the logic behind it all.
- houseabsolute 17y agoIt doesn't seem like any of his proposals would have even remotely the impact of Apple's work in 1984. Actually, even compared to the concept of a touch screen phone that works as they developed in the iPhone. Maybe I'm missing a joke here, but I'd say that he's not in a place to criticize if he thinks that "object-oriented drawings" or "wiki namespaces" are going to be more useful innovations than even the tiniest detail of what Apple, or, hell, Microsoft is doing.
- joe_the_user 17y agoI don't know if his details are correct but I think the sweep, the direction of his thinking is correct. The overall model of human-machine interaction is stuck. But improving that is incredibly hard. It's nice to have even a small base to discuss the improvements by.