Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Appliances of the Future (11 Jan 2005) We face a fascinating future, with much exciting new technology, many new information appliances. We should not have to know how they work. We should not need to know anything about their technology. All we have to know is our job and what we are tying to accomplish. The appliances simply work: they provide the information we need when we need it, effortlessly, without any effort on our part. Smart things, cyborgs, and emotional things: the future will indeed be different. Article URL: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/appliances_of_the_fu.html Read 71 more articles from Don Norman sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Big, Stark & Chunky     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy