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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (3730)	4/14/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: gypsy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

''Interactive computing invites a reflex-based kind of activity often difficult to reconcile with thoughtfully-planned work. Computers fragments our thinking by substituting discrete events for continuous actions, and by requiring us to learn and manage a bewildering multiplicity of processes. They provide the tempation towards proliferation, rather than unity and refinement of pieces of work. They invite a certain myopia by denying any opportunity to step back and study the big picture. Moreover, they too can erode concentration -- or at least calmness -- by a spectrum of interuptions from nanosecond to days, especially the endless quarter-second to ten-second delays typical of today's software operations. At the same time computers are a bit too rewarding to the short reflexive response: too much of what they ask of us takes just a second, gives an instantaneous reward, and requires something more the next second. Instead of thinking, we are just pointing and clicking, and the result is "mouse potatoes" -- people content to keep working a computer without pauses for reflection or quiescence.'' Malcolm McCullough, Abstracting Craft -- the Practiced Digital Hand.