The computer interface is the software that translates digital information into a symbolic system we can understand. Steven Johnson’s Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate traces the evolution of interface design and explores its broad cultural and social impacts on our lives. We also learn the limitations of the current interface […]
A silence unhampered by wind. Birds hovering at the feeder. You do not move, are afraid to move. Everything has converged to form a teetering balance. If you move, or even breathe, the birds fly away, the branches stir as if shaken by a current of air. So you don’t move. The birds eat at […]
Computers have reshaped our world and our lives in ways we have not anticipated. They have redefined not only the way in which work is done in offices, schools and manufacturing complexes, but also the nature of work itself. They have shown us that political boundaries are indefensible against invasions of ideas. The steady transborder […]