Passage Picker by Jacquelyn Whiting https://padlet.com/whitingj1/iavlg24nsoyp Post your reading responses here. This padlet is public so anyone can see it and contribute without logging in. en-us 2017-11-02 11:41:39 UTC 2017-11-06 16:35:47 UTC hello@padlet.com How to add to this padlet: whitingj1 https://padlet.com/whitingj1/iavlg24nsoyp/wish/202843835 Click the + button in the bottom right corner of the screen

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Click anywhere on the screen outside of the box to add your post to the padlet.]]> 2017-11-02 11:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/whitingj1/iavlg24nsoyp/wish/202843835 Select the passage you think is key to understanding the text. Explain its importance. whitingj1 https://padlet.com/whitingj1/iavlg24nsoyp/wish/203091780 2017-11-02 19:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/whitingj1/iavlg24nsoyp/wish/203091780 "In retrospect, this was telling me two things about people’s relationship to technology.One was that romance and image go a long way towards shaping their opinions.If you doubt it (and if you have a lot of spare time on your hands) just ask anyonewho owns a Macintosh and who, on those grounds, imagines him- or herself to be amember of an oppressed minority group.The other, somewhat subtler point, was that interface is very important. Sure, theMGB was a lousy car in almost every way that counted: balky, unreliable, underpowered.But it was fun to drive. It was responsive. Every pebble on the road was feltin the bones, every nuance in the pavement transmitted instantly to the driver’s hands.He could listen to the engine and tell what was wrong with it. The steering respondedimmediately to commands from his hands. To us passengers it was a pointless exercisein going nowhere–about as interesting as peering over someone’s shoulder whilehe punches numbers into a spreadsheet. But to the driver it was an experience. Fora short time he was extending his body and his senses into a larger realm, and doingthings that he couldn’t do unassisted.The analogy between cars and operating systems is not half bad, and so let me runwith it for a moment, as a way of giving an executive summary of our situation today." https://padlet.com/whitingj1/iavlg24nsoyp/wish/203973577 2017-11-06 16:30:17 UTC https://padlet.com/whitingj1/iavlg24nsoyp/wish/203973577