Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

Remember that the military used wind-up radios for years.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.