Nah! Really?! It is a known spoof, and as it says in the text below it, it's a doctored image of a nuke sub control center.
Not dissimilar to this naval control bridge exhibited in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on Washington Mall. http://www.nasm.si.edu/imagedetail.cfm?imageID=937 > From: Alex Rufon <[email protected]> > > Hi Ian, > > I followed your link. Then I click on Humorous HCI link under User Interface > Developer Resources. It of course opened a new page and gives a list. Number > one > is: > > NB. ========================== > 1.1954 Computer of the future > 2006-12-28 Scientists from the RAND Cporation have created this model to > illustrate how a "home computer" could look like in the year 2004. However > the > needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. > Also > the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented > technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is > expected to solve these problems. With teletype interface and the Fortran > language, the computer will be easy to use. > NB. =========================== > > This just made my day! Did they really think that computers NOW would have > that > really big steering wheel to use? LOL. ROFLOL. > > Thanks. :) > > r/Alex > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Ian Clark > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:05 PM > To: Chat forum > Subject: [Jchat] Best Usability Quotations (re the redesign of on-line Voc) > > I was dead wrong to yawn when I saw this link in: http://www.hcibib.org/ > > It's so good, pertinent, brief, I'd like to commend it to everyone > with 60 seconds to spare: http://www.linfo.org/q_usability.html > > Ian > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
