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- catalog abstract "When something works well, you can feel it; there is a sense of rightness to it. We call that rightness beauty, and it ought to be the single most important component of design. This recognition is at the heart of David Gelernter's wittily argued essay, Machine Beauty, which defines beauty as an inspired mating of simplicity and power. You can see it in a Bauhaus chair, the Hoover Dam, or an Emerson radio circa 1930. In contrast, too many contemporary technologists run out of ideas and resort to gimmicks and features; they are rarely capable of real, structural ingenuity. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of computers. You don't have to look far to see how oblivious most computer technologists are to the idea of beauty. Just look at how ugly your computer cabinet is, how unwieldy and out of sync if feels with the manner and speed with which you process thought. The best designers, however, are obsessed with beauty. Both hardware and software should afford us the greatest opportunity to achieve deep beauty, the kind of beauty that happens when many types of loveliness reinforce one another, when design expresses an underlying technology, a machine logic. Program software ought to be transparent: it should engage what Gelernter calls "a thought-amplifying feedback loop," a creative symbiosis with its user. These principles, beautiful in themselves, will set the stage for the next technological revolution, in which the pursuit of elegance will lead to extraordinary innovations.".
- catalog contributor b10627201.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "1. Deep Beauty -- 2. The Paradox of Beauty -- 3. The Aesthetics of Computer Science -- 4. Rise of the Desktop -- 5. Beyond the Desktop -- 6. Computer Ugliness -- 7. Unseen Beauty.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-155) and index.".
- catalog description "When something works well, you can feel it; there is a sense of rightness to it. We call that rightness beauty, and it ought to be the single most important component of design. This recognition is at the heart of David Gelernter's wittily argued essay, Machine Beauty, which defines beauty as an inspired mating of simplicity and power. You can see it in a Bauhaus chair, the Hoover Dam, or an Emerson radio circa 1930. In contrast, too many contemporary technologists run out of ideas and resort to gimmicks and features; they are rarely capable of real, structural ingenuity. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of computers. You don't have to look far to see how oblivious most computer technologists are to the idea of beauty. Just look at how ugly your computer cabinet is, how unwieldy and out of sync if feels with the manner and speed with which you process thought. The best designers, however, are obsessed with beauty. Both hardware and software should afford us the greatest opportunity to achieve deep beauty, the kind of beauty that happens when many types of loveliness reinforce one another, when design expresses an underlying technology, a machine logic. Program software ought to be transparent: it should engage what Gelernter calls "a thought-amplifying feedback loop," a creative symbiosis with its user. These principles, beautiful in themselves, will set the stage for the next technological revolution, in which the pursuit of elegance will lead to extraordinary innovations.".
- catalog extent "ix, 166 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Machine beauty.".
- catalog identifier "0465045162".
- catalog isFormatOf "Machine beauty.".
- catalog isPartOf "MasterMinds.".
- catalog isPartOf "Science masters series".
- catalog isPartOf "The MasterMinds series".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Machine beauty.".
- catalog subject "004/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Computer engineering.".
- catalog subject "Computer software Human factors.".
- catalog subject "Human-computer interaction.".
- catalog subject "QA76.9.H85 G46 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Deep Beauty -- 2. The Paradox of Beauty -- 3. The Aesthetics of Computer Science -- 4. Rise of the Desktop -- 5. Beyond the Desktop -- 6. Computer Ugliness -- 7. Unseen Beauty.".
- catalog title "Machine beauty : elegance and the heart of technology / David Gelernter.".
- catalog type "text".