RE: [xmca] Looking forward by looking back, sort of.

Michael Roth's research on gestures would seem to indicate yes.
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From: "Cunningham, Donald James" <cunningh@indiana.edu>
> Great quote Bill!
>
> I have a question, though. Is the body itself a tool for thought?
>
> Don Cunningham
> Indiana University
>
> Ancora Imparo!
>
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> http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/c7010/Licklider.html
>
> Summary
>
> Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative
> interaction between men and electronic computers. It will involve very
> close coupling between the human and the electronic members of the
> partnership. The main aims are 1) to let computers facilitate
> formulative thinking as they now facilitate the solution of formulated
> problems, and 2) to enable men and computers to cooperate in making
> decisions and controlling complex situations without inflexible
> dependence on predetermined programs. In the anticipated symbiotic
> partnership, men will set the goals, formulate the hypotheses, determine
> the criteria, and perform the evaluations. Computing machines will do
> the routinizable work that must be done to prepare the way for insights
> and decisions in technical and scientific thinking. Preliminary analyses
> indicate that the symbiotic partnership will perform intellectual
> operations much more effectively than man alone can perform them.
> Prerequisites for the achieveme
> nt of
> the effective, cooperative association include developments in computer
> time sharing, in memory components, in memory organization, in
> programming languages, and in input and output equipment.
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