From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly. Emerson, L. In Reading Writing Interfaces, volume 44. University of Minnesota Press, United States, 2014. Num Pages: 47-
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The second cut into the ground of our technological past in this study of reading/writing interfaces is into the era of the GUI-based personal computer that was preceded by Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and Seymour Papert’s experiments with computing and interface design from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. This era began with expandable homebrew kits and irrevocably transformed into so-called user-friendly, closed workstations with the release of the Apple Macintosh in late January 1984.¹ Whereas chapter 1 delves into the computing industry’s present push to take us more deeply into the era of the interface-free, this chapter uncovers an earlier
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	abstract = {The second cut into the ground of our technological past in this study of reading/writing interfaces is into the era of the GUI-based personal computer that was preceded by Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and Seymour Papert’s experiments with computing and interface design from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. This era began with expandable homebrew kits and irrevocably transformed into so-called user-friendly, closed workstations with the release of the Apple Macintosh in late January 1984.¹ Whereas chapter 1 delves into the computing industry’s present push to take us more deeply into the era of the interface-free, this chapter uncovers an earlier},
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