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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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Behave Computer Human Less Like Rock Mind People Treat Tree Unconsciously
To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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Alien Computer Facemfriend Human Manner Memory Own Recognize Work
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Computer Invade Life Live Run
I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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Before Business Certain Father Good Husband Just Learn Rock Star Thing Try
When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Believer Early Huge Music Possible Put Quick
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Beautiful Better Cool Interface Less Matter
And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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Being Human Interact Object React Sentiment Soon Sufficient
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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Discipline Example Geat Giant Other Scientific Shoulder Stand
In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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Computer Dependent Hopeful Irreversible Kill Life Modern Monster Possible
In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Around Begin Behave Human Instinct Other Sentient Special Tell Word
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Answer Design Excellent Just Paper Prototype Question Short
If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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Box Designer Goal Help Magical Person Power Simply Think Useful
Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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Break Need Next One Out Put Record Tour Work
A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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Early Interface Magic Powerful Pretend Scenario Stage Tool

Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.

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