Revisiting Weiser & Brown's 1995 'Calm Technology': the key design problem of this century
manosaie · x · 2026-11-12
A repost quoting Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown's 1995 'Designing Calm Technology': they admit their understanding of calm technology remains incomplete, but believe it may be the most important design problem of the twenty-first century.
Quoted in a thread about nailing agent briefs, suggesting the agent era is a continuation of technology receding into the background.
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