Yes, my response was messy and pre-coffee. Allow me to try again. Smacking an acoustic guitar is something like smacking an electric guitar, and neither is like smacking a keytar. The *novelty arising from misuse* is maybe the surprise that the keytar *smacks* so horribly or that the other two artifacts *smack* so well. Still, what do I want from a phone or alarm clock? In the latter case, I am happy to have reinvented it for myself. I cannot stand obnoxious buzzing, it takes very little to wake me, and often there isn't anything that requires me to be up. It took a little doing, but now a low decibel white noise generator turns on for me at the time I wish to be awake. For a while, I considered rigging a servomotor to my curtains and simply letting in light[||]. However, the subtle hum of the motor itself would be enough for me to stir, especially if I know that I need to be awake for something.
Sometimes, when I think about the analogies made to the econosphere or the biosphere, I am concerned that the pressures evoked by the analogy are far too severe, and I am left imagining influences that strongly determine the phase. As Brian Arthur points out, analog clocks move clockwise and are usually modulo 12 or the occasional 24. This appears to be a stable fact of our world, and I wish to point out that it is expensively so. In cases where there isn't the entirety of the markets to reinforce a particular design, or need to gain access to specialized resources, we ought to see quite a bit more variation in design and possibly other *intuitive* designs. Sometimes I waffle on how I feel about the qwerty keyboard. Sometimes, I hate that it slows me down and forces me to siphon off some small amount of mental resource to the interface. Other times, like with my mouse, I am annoyed that the convenience promotes certain bad skimming habits when I read. I guess in the end, the diversity of technology is good in that it helps me to discover myself, to know better the various modes of engagement that I can enjoy, and to understand what these modes have to offer. It may be a moot point with respect to phones as there may not be much more to want from an interface, the principle components may all be discovered. I suspect this is the case for the bicycle, and now we simply refine. I am not so certain that this is the case for computers and in particular screens. While I personally am skeptical of technologies like neural-link, I do hope for a future where we reimagine computer-human interfaces and where I don't need to simultaneously stare into a strobe light while attempting to concentrate. [||] Gee, I feel like I sound like Nadine Hurley going on about her silent drape runners :) -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
