Whats going today on in technology that makes correctly understanding the relationship between humans and technologies important?
Two big things, at least. The first is the generation of adaptive and individualized tools and technologies. One example would be the new generation of ‘software agents’: packages of code that serve a specific user, perhaps searching for news-items, stocks or goods over the web, and that can learn about that user and tailor themselves to her specific needs over time. In a similar vein, imagine a PC that learnt what major functions you used most, and made them increasingly fast and efficient (at the expense of those that you don’t use). In each case, the tool becomes tailored to the individual by a kind of ‘mutual learning’. The second is the development of a wide variety of new ways of interfacing between user and technology. In place of the tired old low-bandwidth links of mouse and keyboard, folk at MIT media lab and elsewhere are devising ways of making information flow tangible and manipulable using skills that come naturally to human users. One example is an ‘electronic bow’ for p
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