March 2006
Beginner
272 pages
5h 48m
English
Thesis 17The overwhelming majority of people experiencing everyware will not be knowledgeable about information technology.
When computing was something that took place behind the walls of corporate data centers and campus Comp Sci labs, its user base was demographically homogeneous. There were simply not that many ways in which a computer user of the mid-1960s could vary: In North America, anyway, we know that they were overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly between the ages of 18 and, say, 40 at the outside; they were, by definition, highly educated.
So it was entirely reasonable for the designers of computing systems of ...
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