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Strategy, technology, media, and social systems
September 13, 2006
From Don Norman, the author of the famous POET (Psychology of everyday things) a word of wisdom about Human factors: I’m often asked for reading suggestions, especially for references to the literature on Human Factors and Ergonomics. In the past few months,…
January 31, 2006
A big name corporation (can’t tell the name, I might be sued, but it isn’t Microsoft) came up with this absolutely amazing innovative device… Announcing the New Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device It’s a revolutionary breakthrough in technology: no wires, no electric…
January 16, 2006
A piece of news I plucked from the Purdue News Service stream made my heart leap with joy. Two of my Purdue colleagues have won the Microsoft competition for designing the computer of the future. Their design slaughters the desktop computer to…
January 8, 2006
The web is for stories, says Hypergene, but not for individuals stories. It is for networked stories. They propose an “Amazon-style” storytelling process, where the articles are embedded in the flow of similar stories that surround them and are displayed according to…