Comments on: Oh, my binary heart http://www.inkblurt.com/2008/10/23/oh-my-binary-heart/ User Experience, Information Architecture & Other Obsessions Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Casey http://www.inkblurt.com/2008/10/23/oh-my-binary-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-52634 Casey Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:21:42 +0000 http://www.inkblurt.com/?p=630#comment-52634 I saw this quote today from Vannevar Bush and it made me think of David's and your posts: "If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability." I saw this quote today from Vannevar Bush and it made me think of David’s and your posts:

“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.”

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://www.inkblurt.com/2008/10/23/oh-my-binary-heart/comment-page-1/#comment-52595 Steve Portigal Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:00:53 +0000 http://www.inkblurt.com/?p=630#comment-52595 I've heard Neil complain about what digital does to music as long a I've been listening to him. Meanwhile, he's been working on a project to release this incredible treasure trove of stuff known as The Archives. Since I started following Neil stuff on the 'net there has always been an imminent or postponed release of the archives, and it was always tied to some new technology that was going to push digital far enough that Neil was (I'm inferring) be satisfied. SACD, DVD-A, now Blu-Ray. Neil has stood up at trade shows and demoed the interface, and still the release date and the format for the release are always changing. Will he put it out, or will he shelve for The Next Digital Thing? It has a Ted Nelson/Quixote aspect to it after decades of this sort of thing. Neil could take a good lesson from Facebook users who are squeezing a complex human situation into a few fixed choices and note that they are deriving value from the experience. We've been studying how coworkers use "presence" and the systems are useless by one measure, but the humans who use the systems are geniuses because they bring in tons and tons of their own contextual information around how other people are using - or not using - the fixed choices that these interfaces provide to develop their own calculus of availability. Anyway, interesting topic for me! Thanks. I’ve heard Neil complain about what digital does to music as long a I’ve been listening to him. Meanwhile, he’s been working on a project to release this incredible treasure trove of stuff known as The Archives. Since I started following Neil stuff on the ‘net there has always been an imminent or postponed release of the archives, and it was always tied to some new technology that was going to push digital far enough that Neil was (I’m inferring) be satisfied. SACD, DVD-A, now Blu-Ray. Neil has stood up at trade shows and demoed the interface, and still the release date and the format for the release are always changing. Will he put it out, or will he shelve for The Next Digital Thing? It has a Ted Nelson/Quixote aspect to it after decades of this sort of thing.

Neil could take a good lesson from Facebook users who are squeezing a complex human situation into a few fixed choices and note that they are deriving value from the experience. We’ve been studying how coworkers use “presence” and the systems are useless by one measure, but the humans who use the systems are geniuses because they bring in tons and tons of their own contextual information around how other people are using – or not using – the fixed choices that these interfaces provide to develop their own calculus of availability.

Anyway, interesting topic for me! Thanks.

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