Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: [MUGers] Turn off the options, and turn up the intimacy.
From: Andrew Schroter <schroter@optonline.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:11:32 -0800
References: <20020222030749.35910.qmail@web14003.mail.yahoo.com>

The last two cars I drove/drive are Toyotas.  No Service bays for anything
other than normal service, oil change, brakes, tires, etc.  They've been
incredibly reliable for 250K miles between them.

>
> 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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