http://bentwrite.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/pass-it-on/ The Computer as Intellectual Prosthetic Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:23:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://bentwrite.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/pass-it-on/#comment-8 Smokey Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:17:25 +0000 http://bentwrite.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/pass-it-on/#comment-8 Smokey Forester, a documentary TV producer in New York, wrote to me: "I agree with you that we are connected with the minds of the software writers as we do our work on our computers. I’m not a writer so my work is different and the minds I connect with are different, but the effect is the same. I definitely approach tasks and problems differently than I used to (before computers, if you can imagine such a world) because of the way the software is written." A piece of software functions like an intellectual prosthetic. Smokey Forester, a documentary TV producer in New York, wrote to me: “I agree with you that we are connected with the minds of the software writers as we do our work on our computers. I’m not a writer so my work is different and the minds I connect with are different, but the effect is the same. I definitely approach tasks and problems differently than I used to (before computers, if you can imagine such a world) because of the way the software is written.” A piece of software functions like an intellectual prosthetic.

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