February 2012
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“Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended...”
– Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)
From "Man-Computer Symbiosis" by J. C. R....
“For the purposes of real-time cooperation between men and computers, it will be necessary, however, to make use of an additional and rather different principle of communication and control. The idea may be highlighted by comparing instructions ordinarily addressed to intelligent human beings with instructions ordinarily used with computers. The latter specify precisely the individual steps...