Using computers – reading highlights

The next lines will be my favorite and more interesting sentences and ideas from the text:” Using computers. A direction for Design ” By terry Winograd & Fernando Flores.

• “The most important designing is ontological…”
• “…affecting the kind of beings that we are.”
• “…looking backwards to the tradition that has formed us but also forward to as-yet-uncreated transformation…”
• Interfering with the background of our heritage.
• What is it, to be human?
• Essence of communication: what is user friendly?, Transparency of interaction, User domains, Breakdowns – problems .
• Technology leads to transformations.
• Creating new framework of actions – leads to better domains of interpretation
• “…we are doing more than asking what can be built.”
• “we are engaging in a philosophical discourse about the self – about what we can do and what we can be...”
• “… continuing evolution of how we understand our surroundings and ourselves – of how we continue becoming the beings that we are.”