/////A white girl with blue eyes - her name is Eva.//////
I've been reading the laws of simplicity by John Maeda for a part of my thesis reserach, because I am interested in the idea of interior/exterior of an object. In the first law he mentions the notion of HIDE, which is to hide all the complicated elements of a machine inside to make the exterior simple - or perhaps user friendly.
The "User-Friendliness" is convenient for the users (and friendly) but it seems like we, the users, are losing interested in what is really happening. We let things go by because the technology does all the job. The computer, I am typing on, functions in its certain ways but I don't know how it functions. I know that when I press "T" on the keyboard the letter "T" appears. I know that part of the system but I don't exactly know how it works so; whereas in typewriter you can see that the key you press pushes the letter and it hits the carbon and that hits the paper and voila, there is a letter on the paper.
As the technology advances the function of the objects become closer to the users, but the technological system becomes further and further.
Will we ever come to a point where we feel the need to learn what is surrounding us?
*SONG OF THE DAY "You're Beautiful" James Blunt*
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