Mark Hurst passed along an interesting item from his own weblog at goodexperience.com. He criticizes the idea that computers should be designed to interact with people on an emotional level — for instance, responding with friendly noises when you hug the computer, I guess. It would be much better, Mark argues, to concentrate on making computers *work* correctly, and easily. In other words, “let’s get more effectiveness from less technology.”

The Laughing Computer