Author:: feifan zhou Link:: https://feifan.blog/posts/computers-arent-fun-anymore Tags:#media/article Summary::
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- The Dream Machine common theme is that people tinkerer with computer and play
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In the words of MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle: computers empowered their users, making them feel smart[er], “in control”, and “more fully participant in the future”.
- Those feel like odd descriptions for the modern computing experience. Using computers today doesn’t feel like an empowering experience. Sometimes it’s mindless and distracting. Sometimes, when a redesign rolls out, or laptop doesn’t wake from sleep mode, it’s downright hostile. The experience of using a computer in 2020 is a concoction of data silos, dinging notifications and reinvented wheels, presented in gratuitously bubble-wrapped UIs hyper-optimized by persnickety product managers and soulless A/B tests.
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- The Dream Machine common theme is that people tinkerer with computer and play