The Design of Future Things
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natural, 59–60
of water boiling in a kettle, 60
See also Communication; Natural interaction; Signaling
de Souza, Clarisse, 66–69
Speciner, M., 184
Spielberg, Steven, 31
Stanton, Neville, 114
Star Wars, 25
Stephenson, Neil, 163
Stick Shaker, 150
Stross, Charles, 25–26
Swarming, 108–113
Symbiotic relationships
Cobots as an example of, 86–88
examples of, 17–21
natural signals in, 23–25
Segway Personal Transporters as an example of, 89–90
social interaction required by, 21–22
“symbiosis,” definition of, 22
See also Machine+person entities; Natural interaction
Teakettles. See Kettles
Technology
calm, 148–149
changes in people resulting from changes in, 165–167
collaboration and communication as critical for, 4–5
conferences and, 99–104
conforming to our, 168–171
control, shift from people to machines in, 10–17
definitions of, 95
feedback, need for design to include. See Feedback
future, products of the, 155–160
the machine’s point of view. See Machine’s point of view, the
materials, revolution in, 158–159
people as tools of, 94–99
trapped by advanced, 91–94
See also Automation; Intelligent machines
Things That Make Us Smart (Norman), 168
Thoma, Marta, 42
Thoreau, Henry, 94–95
3-D fax and printing technology, 159–160
Trudeau, Garry, 144
Turkle, Sherry, 2
2001, 25
Vigilance, 114
Walden (Thoreau), 94
Weiser, Mark, 148–149
Wilde, Gerald, 79
Wiltshire, England, 115
Wroblewski, Dave, 66
Yeager, Larry, 145
Young, Mark, 114
Zuboff, Shoshana, 132–133