User:Inge Hoonte/Bootstrapping
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Thierry Bardini Bootstrapping
Cover: Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse. Firm lips, hooked nose. Judging by his hand gesture, he's in the middle of making an important point. Notice the grey streak of hair that's glued to the rest of his head with gel. There seems to be a wire coming out of his left ear.
'Thierry Bardini on wikipedia, author of Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertext to Cyberspace, where he described the history of hypertext through the visions of two early pioneers in the field: Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson.'
- uses and users
- the screen was not always the interface, the point of contact betw human and computer
- inventor of tool also invents the kind of people that will use their innovations
- Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theater. Chair of Design Program at CCA. Worked at Atari.
- Laurel: that which joins computer and human. Computer already knows about human, their terminology is embedded in the design, decided on by the designer. The user is represented IN the interface, it's where it interacts with the computer, therefor there are narratives in the interface.
- User manipulates an iconic version of its document (the graphic on the desktop, in the folder, etc)