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To: carolyn walder who wrote (2897)	3/15/1998 9:55:00 AM
From: Mitchell Jones	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10309

Well, here is something Allen has not discussed before. Will WIND's new GUI lead embedded systems developers down the path of "bricolage"? This idea of bricolage--roughly defined as tinkering--has recently taken on new meaning, Turkle maintains. Because the graphical-user interface (embodied by the Macintosh and Windows operating systems) has become the dominant paradigm, most computers users, male and female alike, use bricolage: they cannot see the engine under the hood of the car. "Everything is on the surface. You don't read the rule book; you do it by tinkering," Turkle explains. "The danger is that this sort of bricolage becomes a model for all understanding." Excerpt from a thought provoking article in "The Scientific American" sciam.com Mitch