CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phonograph, Electric Light
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Annotated bib due in hard copy in next weeks lecture 4 pm due also on mls 4 pm. Your assessment of the work is base don reasons. If you agree with the authors view and argument: > new ways to make a previous technology useful. > the work of designers, marketers, or innovative users adapting this technology into their lives. Explaining how to get to the next place. Aid to biz men to dictate letters to their secretaries. The best design does not always win! Quality /usefulness and whether something spreads widely is not highly correlated. No one can hear what you"re saying on the phone. Couldn"t be adopted at the time because the company of telephones had a policy that the phone had to be produced at bell. Today, third party developers are encouraged and no longer a threat. Predictions of the year 2000 from the ladies home journal of december 1900. Tech development as natural - natural progression.
