Cynthia Williamson wrote:
> I've been waiting for someone to mention Apple - think about the iPod -
> folks browse through 100s, even 1000s of songs, they don't search, they
> browse. Surely there's a lesson here for us.
Right. And surely more new approaches can be found, or exist already.
So let's not feebly allow the dictionary browsing concept to fall by the
wayside because it is a bit more difficult to present (with current
technology).
Martha Yee's suggestion is on the right track. That approach ought to be
part of any NGC strategy. I mean, we _cannot_ flatly assume the
single-slot input interface - the vending-machine paradigm - to be the
one device of choice that can open up the universe of recorded knowledge
for everybody, to make the world's information accessible and useful.
Wouldn't propagating this amount to an assault on reason?
B. Eversberg
Received on Thu Aug 02 2007 - 01:35:22 EDT