Michael Dertouzos [Archive.org URL]

The late Michael Dertouzos observed in his last book, The Unfinished Revolution, that all too often, humans are at the service of computers, rather than the much more desirable opposite. To take full advantage of new technologies, to really enable the widest range of possibilities opened up by innovation, we must make sure that technologies aren’t designed in isolation from their eventual users; technology ought to help us, to shore up our weak points, and to magnify our strong points. Without ignoring or dismissing our all-too-real human limitations, technology ought to make us better at being human.

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