del.ico.us threw this article at me this morning,
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/meta4compute.html
neat discussion about the frames we preconsciously use to think about
computers, it's important if you want to build software and information
systems that people _want_ to use...
here he's commenting on the LANGUAGE AS CONDUIT metaphor and how it
affects the ways we design input mechanisms (including the commandline)
"""
Some solutions may be in the offing, and thinking about them is
interesting. For instance, while speech recognition is very difficult and
isn't going to become widespread soon, it offers some possibilities for
getting away from the written language metaphor. It is startling to think
that within a few decades, typing may be as rare a skill as knapping a
flint arrowhead, driving a coach-and-four, shooting a flintlock musket, or
solving an equation on a slide rule. We may be living in what might come
to be called the Written Input Era; like the Vacuum Tube Era, one of the
fascinating sidelights of technological history. Before we all learned how
language really works.
"""
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