On 22 Aug 2008, at 07:30, Judy Perry wrote:
if anyone has any names that would be really cool, too, as the poiknt is not to say A[pple rules because they made colored computers buty rather to show students in a vary obvious, visual way, that computers DO have some sort of impact in a non-technological way on people, their social norms (different unit -- think of the need for many of us to 'take calls in the stall' if you khow what I mean) and their non-computer tools.
of course there where dozens of see trough peripherals suddenly appearing, all sporting see trough cables. most peripherals reverted back to silver, but there's still lots of see trough cables on various products. (of course there's been see trough stuff before the imac, but there's always invention and then there's making the market buy billions of pieces of said invention (if you can call fancy colorisation an invention)). Of course that's not really a computerization of real life, as i have never seen anything non- computerish using see trough cables.
When I think of how computers change real life, I always think on how UI's are degrading in usability and intuitivity. A remote used to have a button for everything, yet never featured more then 30 buttons. These days there's hardly a remote to be found with less then 50 buttons, and they always are able to invoke some sort of software menu (or even several different ones) on the tv to make a gazillion of settings. Both the remotes and the software menus normally are hard to use and incompatible with any other usage pattern, just like computers.
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