Spring’s a harbinger of a trend toward concept-centric computing where the concepts—people, places, products, etc—that define your life become the center of your computing experience with traditional applications and documents playing a much less important role than before.
That’s what this book was all about. But instead of an application, Donald Norman envisions activity-specific devices: a checkbook computer and printer, a grocery list organizer/computer/printer, instead of the horribly complicated “jack of all tasks” machines we’ve all been told we need.
I doubt that fragmentation would be useful, but I do like what I am reading about Spring and how it reminds me of my first encounter with the old Mac interface. I’ll have to try this thing out. <sigh> where’s that iBook when I need it?
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