Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: [MUGers] Turn off the options, and turn up the intimacy.
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 19:07:49 -0800 (PST)

It's the digital revolution that gone haywire. I think
computer applications while greatly advance our
control over complicated variables, also gives us the
technological abuse of the 21st century. 
The modern automobile is another example of such
evolution by offering us tons of features, but the
irony is that we spend more time visiting the service
bays and the likelyhood of even the so-call experts in
fixing it is a chancy business. What begins as
machines to serve me, is turning us all into slaves in
serving IT endlessly. 

- --- Tristan Tom <tristan@tristantom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> "The trouble begins with a design philosophy that
> equates "more options"
> with "greater freedom." Designers struggle endlessly
> with a problem that is
> almost nonexistent for users: "How do we pack the
> maximum number of options
> into the minimum space and price?" In my experience,
> the instruments and
> tools that endure (because they are loved by their
> users) have limited
> options. "
> 
> 
> from a Wired article by Brian Eno, a very
> interesting read at:
> 
> 
>
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/eno_pr.html>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Tristan Tom | http://tristantom.com/
> 


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