Mark Hurst passed along an

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