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Computers Support Humans

Title: @lukasikWhyArpanetWas2011 date: 2023-04-05 type: literature project:

tags:: #memex3 #atomic #HCI projects::

[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight that people could become very much more effective in their thinking and decision making if they had the support of a computer system, good displays, and so forth, good data bases, computation at your command.

Another driving factor for the advancements of computers

Page 5 [[2023-04-01#1:25 pm]] [!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight It really wasn’t a command and control research program [anymore]. It was an interactive computing program.

Turning point for the vision of computers.

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The vision that computers could help support humans with their work shifted the thinking of the things computers can do. The thinking that computers weren't just super advanced calculators and something that people can use and interact with to support their endeavours. The quality of these systems now matter because we want to be efficient, one of the ways we can do is organizing information into databases. Walkowitz touches on that: Organizing information

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HCI with OPAC Neccessities for adoption computers Collapsing space time with the telephone Organizing information future media early boom of the internet