Ambient Interfaces
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Ambient Interfaces
The transition from the CLI to the GUI abstracted away the laborious verbal communication between humans and computers and replaced it with visually appealing, expensively designed interfaces.
Gaby Goldberg • The Command Line Comeback
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we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
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Interactive media technologies are, at least in one sense, anticontextual. They open the field to new widths, constantly expanding relevance and reference, and they equip their user with a powerful grazing tool.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
The widespread adoption of the ‘desktop’ metaphor underscored that early personal computers would become workplace technologies.
CRAIG ROBERTSON • The Filing Cabinet
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In order to be full and useful participants in the world, computers need to have relations with it. They need to touch and be in touch with the world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
pervasive potential of ambient displays, especially those in public spaces—such as offices, commercial buildings, airports, and schools—will help people learn more about and better monitor the health of their businesses, organizations, and teams, and even of entire cities.
David Rose • Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology
If you take all of our technological innovations of the past two decades—certainly those in the fields of computing and communications—you cannot fail to see that their collective tendency is to breach the wall of isolated selfhood and to swamp us