Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Things That Make Us Smart: Forbes article (21 Mar 2006) Poor Forbes: They are facing a fundamental problem with this list. There are many different kinds of tools, and it is really quite impossible to rank them in importance. One set of tools is essential for life: knives and other hand tools, fire and other tools for clothing and warmth, agricultural tools and transportation tools such as packs, wheels, wagons, harnesses and saddles. Another set is essential for the advancement of knowledge, civilization and culture: notation, reading and writing, and the algorithms for logical thinking. How can one compare these sets? Comparing apples with oranges is easy compared to this: This is comparing apples with algebra. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/things_that_make_us.html Read 89 more articles from Don Norman sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Brown University, Microsoft Research Open Research Center on Pen-Centric Computing          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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