A brief rant on the future of interaction design

"With an entire body at your command, do you seriously think the Future Of Interaction should be a single finger?" Bret Victor, A brief rant on the future of interaction design

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"The signs are that many of us struggle these days to read in a concerted, attentive and linear fashion. In The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr argues that we have become incredibly adept at flitting from one thing to another, filtering, selecting and absorbing little bursts of information as we go. The screen environment, with its many competing nodes of interest, encourages this kind of scanning and scavenging, and we readily embrace every kind of electronic information source, priding ourselves on our quicksilver modern ability to multi-task." Rick Poynor in This Post has Been Declared a Link-free Zone

I find that it is very difficult to read on a screen, concentration is constantly interrupted. It's like getting sucked into a wiki wormhole, jumping from one topic to another and never fully understanding anything. Twitter is the biggest example of this constant jumping, i couldn't be bothered reading a whole article most of the time, I feel like Karl Pilkington on the Ricky Gervais Show. It becomes dangerous when you just read the headlines, because sometimes you get the wrong end of the stick.

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Everything is a Remix: Matrix

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Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

Becoming better versions of ourselves, or how the basic paradigms of gaming culture foster social change.