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There’s an impetus to hide the technical details of the world, but I think that’s a devastating mistake.
Hints of the existence of a deeper technical layer is how kids are inspired to become engineers.
Turning technology into a magical black box arguably makes technology much less magical than hinting at how that black box actually works.
A Frivolous Feature
kontakt@marginalia.nu (Viktor Lofgren)
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
The Freedom of the Press
O. Dag
The presence of an affordance is jointly determined by the qualities of the object and the abilities of the agent that is interacting.
This relational definition of affordance gives considerable difficulty to many people. We are used to thinking that properties are associated with objects. But affordance is not a property. An affordance is a relationship. Whether an affordance exists depends upon the properties of both the object and the agent.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
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