{"id":2227,"date":"2010-04-15T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:44:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:44:25","slug":"handy-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/04\/15\/handy-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Handy technology."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity is the mother of invention. Iambic pentameter, the three second rule: constraints lead to improvisation. You need a wall to have a &#8220;breakthrough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The size constraints of the mobile web device (n\u00e9e &#8220;smart phone&#8221;) are having an interesting effect on computer interface design, whereby to be effective, the interface has to be handy, literally. <\/p>\n<p>Our hands \u2013\u00a0historically, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thumb#Origin_of_the_human_thumb\">our thumbs<\/a> especially \u2013\u00a0are our most important tool: the primary means* by which we manipulate our world. The keyboard was a breakthrough in the evolution of culture because it allowed humans to easily manipulate the written word.<\/p>\n<p>Technologies like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cover_Flow\">Cover Flow<\/a>, that merge the <em>display<\/em> of information with the <em>handling<\/em> of information, are a similar breakthrough. <\/p>\n<p>Manipulating images with gestures in order to enact changes in the physical world may not be intellectual &#8220;progress&#8221; but it might be a more accessible intellectual process for the many who are not entirely comfortable in the esoteric practice of literary thinking \u2013\u00a0i.e., thinking through written words. <\/p>\n<p><small>*Our mouths are probably more important but I don&#8217;t want to drift into speculation.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity is the mother of invention. Iambic pentameter, the three second rule: constraints lead to improvisation. You need a wall to have a &#8220;breakthrough.&#8221; The size constraints of the mobile web device (n\u00e9e &#8220;smart phone&#8221;) are having an interesting effect on computer interface design, whereby to be effective, the interface has to be handy, literally&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}