In Your Interface: Bruce Tognazzini Says the Interface He Designed for Apple Has Become an Obstacle to the Next Stage of the Computer Revolution

Envision your computer in 10 or 20 years looking like one of today’s office cubicles, except the desktop and walls are capable of displaying computer-generated images. And the walls are touch-sensitive. And the system can sense your position in space so you can use gestures to communicate with it … When it’s working, you’ll be able to access your personal information space wherever you are, from computer environments similar to your office and as commonplace as pay phones. There’ll be a wide variety of computers to work with. You’ll feel as if your information is always with you. And, except for security, the boundaries of where your computer ends and the universe of networked information begins will be wonderfully blurred.

Accommodating the Velocity: The Whitney’s David Ross Knows that the Museum will be Completely Transformed by the New Technology

The Internet is not only going to be a site for the contest of ideas and values, which is what museums do; it could very well be the site of a serious struggle for control of our culture.

Agent of the Third Culture: John Brockman is the Michael Ovitz of the New Intellectual Elite

We’re going through a rapidly accelerating epistemological sea change. We’re using tools with unprecedented power, and in the process, as the scientist J.Z. Young wrote, we’re becoming those tools. What we’ve lacked is an intellectual culture able to transform its own premises as fast as our technologies are transforming us. The only place you’re going to find that is in sciences where empiricism and epistemology collide, and everything becomes different … We’re living through the most intense change in the history of the human race. It’s absurd to hide one’s head in the sand. It’s just as absurd to commodify that change as the next chic lifestyle … We need to cultivate a critical perspective toward the tools we use.