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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://hci.social/users/fasterandworse/statuses/115718298742385393">Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 00:40:22 JST</a><a href="https://hci.social/@fasterandworse" title="fasterandworse@hci.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/108758-48-20230320225027.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Stephen Farrugia" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Stephen Farrugia</a></section><article><p>The World Is Not A Desktop - Mark Weiser</p><p><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174800.174801" rel="nofollow">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174800.174801</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5954224#notice-11712999">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-12-15T00:40:22+09:00" title="Monday, 15-Dec-2025 00:40:22 JST">about 10 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/115718298742385393" rel="external" title="Sent from hci.social via ActivityPub">hci.social</a></span></span><a href="https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/115718298742385393">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/5562948">Take intelligent agents. The idea, as near as I can tell, is that the ideal computer should be like a human being, only more obedient. Anything so insidiously appealing should immediately give pause. Why should a computer be anything like a human being? Are airplanes like birds, typewriters like pens, alphabets like mouths, cars like horses? Are human interactions so free of trouble, misunderstanding, and ambiguity that they represent a desirable computer interface goal? Further, it takes a lot of time and attention to build and maintain a smoothly running team of people, even a pair of people. A computer that I must talk to, give commands to, or have a relationship with (much less be intimate with), is a computer that is too much the center of attention.</a></label><br><a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/hci-social-storage/media_attachments/files/115/718/297/415/405/705/original/c29e44f2fe71ef96.png" rel="external">https://storage.googleapis.com/hci-social-storage/media_attachments/files/115/718/297/415/405/705/original/c29e44f2fe71ef96.png</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 00:40:22 JST Stephen Farrugia
The World Is Not A Desktop - Mark Weiser
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1. Take intelligent agents. The idea, as near as I can tell, is that the ideal computer should be like a human being, only more obedient. Anything so insidiously appealing should immediately give pause. Why should a computer be anything like a human being? Are airplanes like birds, typewriters like pens, alphabets like mouths, cars like horses? Are human interactions so free of trouble, misunderstanding, and ambiguity that they represent a desirable computer interface goal? Further, it takes a lot of time and attention to build and maintain a smoothly running team of people, even a pair of people. A computer that I must talk to, give commands to, or have a relationship with (much less be intimate with), is a computer that is too much the center of attention.
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