Monday, May 24, 2004
Holding hands...
Talking this morning on Radio 4, Andrew Marr was discussing computers, and presented an interesting perspective on his machine. His perspective was that it was permanently on the verge of a nervous breakdown, becasue it's being asked to do too much all at once. And if he gets a new one, that will undoubtedly be worse. He also said that he thought they were getting more human-like. A screen facing you that's roughly head-sized (he's not using the 23" Apple cinema display then - though with his ears, maybe the analogy still fits :-)), with a mouse instead of a hand - and you hold it's hand.
I love the last part of the analogy - holding the hand of your nervous computer to help it through the day and to get things done. This all illustrates the bigger issue of how much people anthropomorphise their computers and give them personalities.
Talking this morning on Radio 4, Andrew Marr was discussing computers, and presented an interesting perspective on his machine. His perspective was that it was permanently on the verge of a nervous breakdown, becasue it's being asked to do too much all at once. And if he gets a new one, that will undoubtedly be worse. He also said that he thought they were getting more human-like. A screen facing you that's roughly head-sized (he's not using the 23" Apple cinema display then - though with his ears, maybe the analogy still fits :-)), with a mouse instead of a hand - and you hold it's hand.
I love the last part of the analogy - holding the hand of your nervous computer to help it through the day and to get things done. This all illustrates the bigger issue of how much people anthropomorphise their computers and give them personalities.
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