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

Ditto work of McNeil and Goldin-Meadow.
mike

On 6/28/07, xmcabb@comcast.net <xmcabb@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Michael Roth's research on gestures would seem to indicate yes.
> bb
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> 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!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
> > On Behalf Of xmcabb@comcast.net
> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:34 AM
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> > Subject: [xmca] Looking forward by looking back, sort of.
> >
> > 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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