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Is AI Breaking HCI? - by Paul Slater - Humanity Working

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How the new world is changing the way we interact with technology

It’s 1983, and you are unboxing an amazing new piece of tech: the Commodore 64. Everyone’s talking about how cool this thing is. You press the power button and see: **** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 **** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE READY. So, what now? If you are lucky, you know someone who can show you what to do (remember there is no YouTube primer to help you). If your friends don’t have a computer yet, you stare at the cursor for a while, type something random, get an error, and wonder what the fuss is all about. This was the central problem of early personal computing. The effort…

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