the interface

I did not comprehend any of this. I'm guessing it's about the advancements in technology. . . A few things sunk in here and there, but what was the purpose of this chapter? Is it trying to explain all the functions of the GUI? Or how it has taken over so many tasks in our lives? I read this thing six times, but I just keep getting lost. I hate reading, but i tried.

the interface.

two questions;
1. "in society, work and leisure activities... increasingly involve computer use..." at what point will work &play &all other ways in which we spend our time merge into being completely computer-dependent?
2. because artwork created digitally depends so much on the program in which it is created, which can itself be considered a work of art, is it a stretch to call the artwork a collaboration piece between "artist/s" &program designer/s?

The Interface.

This article explains about the teachology and that it has permeated in modern society.
It has made changes in leisure as in work

so my questions are


1. The articles says that the technology has impacted on people's leiusre, then how does new digital technology impact on art in general? Would it substitute the current art museums if arts can be easily seen on websites? or would it bring any change in the current art forms? or would the make any new forms of art?

2. Although the technology enables people to communicate and obtain datas abroad, how would it enable "most" of the people to use the technology. There can be a language barrier preventing people from using other countries' interface. Then should all the interfaces be made with graphic so people can access the proper data regardless of the language barrier? Would it be possible?

Two Questions

My basic understanding of this text is that over a short period of time the GUI of computers and the like have substantially grown, or evolved into very complicated and sometimes unique tools from just one simple template. This constantly changing GUI also seems to be merging cultures by applying a universal language as well as satisfying the needs of both work and leisure. My Questions are-

#1. Could this template be limiting in all its apparent growth by not seeking other ways to accomplish similar goals? Meaning that we could be moving too fast in a direction and overlooking other options of giving and receiving information.

#2. Is it healthy to be entertained and work via the same device? Might this in fact make businesses too dependent on just one tool? Should a person truly spend leisurely time staring at the same tool?

O.K. I guess thats more than two Questions...................So heres one more

#$. People from around the globe are using similar GUI's and learning about eachother almost instantly. Is it safe to merge cultures with a unifying translator of this sort? Many culturally specific qualities could be lost or misunderstood in the process.

response plus super.

ive never actually thought of computers the way they referenced them in this chapter. it's very interesting, because ive always felt computers to be lacking a little in the conceptual concept, but now i see that they are much more than that. im actually really starting to look foreward to our projects now, because i'd like to try a few things. i dont think the part about copying and pasting and such was a reference to plaigarism, because its just a tool that you can sue on anything, it would be the person who could potentially use that for copyright, but that could be done without the tool, and it would be noticed either way.

Interface questions

... in art the connection between content and form is motivated: that is, the choice of a particular interface is motivated by a work's content to such degree that it can no longer be thought of as asperate level. Content and Interface merge into one entity, and no longer can be taken apart...
so my first question is why can we no longer look at content and form and new media as two different levels?
...the initial data suppied by the programmer acts as a genotype that expanded into full phenotype by the computer...
second question, is this the same thoery applied to the cut and paste actions? on page 4 or is the author explaining that a programmer is appointed the responsibilty in supplying the information with the help of a computer?

Two Questions

1. One part of the reading that really puzzled me was on page 63 and three paragraphs down. It reads according to a Macintosh computer, " Of course while they run, OS and applications constantly create, write to, and erase various temporary files, as well as swap data between RAM and virtual memory files on a hard drive, but most of this activity remains invisible to the user." This part of the reading really pushed me to think in two different ways. The first thing I thought was that if computers can erase and create files unknowingly then do they have some sort of mind to their own? This thought, at first, scared me. I thought if computers can do things without you controlling them then they are independent in some ways. Another thought that had crossed my mind has to do with the programmer. The person that invented a Macintosh hard-drive created it to erase and create files with a mind of its own. How can someone go about creating a machine that has that much intelligence?

2. On page 65, the second paragraph, I believe discusses the idea of copy and paste. I know that everyone knows what copy and paste is and now I know it is apart of the modern GUI. My question has to deal with plagiarism. The paragraph states, "This operation (copy and paste) renders insignificant the traditional distinction between spatial and temporal media, since the user can cut and paste parts of images, regions of space, and part of a temporal compostition in exactly the same way. It is also 'blind' to traditional distinctions in scale: the user can cut and paste a single pixel, an image, or a whole digital movie in the same way". Is this part of the reading about plagiarism? If it doesn't have to do with copying pieces of artwork and changing them around then what is it about?