I like the analogy of the "bicycle for the mind", because riding a bike requires effort from you, and the bike multiplies the effect of that effort. I don't think the end goal of technology should be to let you sit around and twiddle your thumbs.
François Cholletx.comI like the analogy of the "bicycle for the mind", because riding a bike requires effort from you, and the bike multiplies the effect of that effort. I don't think the end goal of technology should be to let you sit around and twiddle your thumbs.
In 1980, Steve Jobs was discussing computing and used a simple yet powerful metaphor for how computers can be bicycles for the mind. Technology amplifies our capabilities — and computing can now do the same thing for our minds. Here are two versions of the same talk by Jobs — one in 1980 and another ten years later, both around a min
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This is how technology should work: starting with a human need, and a purpose, technology should extend outwards with the intent of expanding the human, not confining or reducing.