{"id":224,"date":"2005-09-29T12:57:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/09\/29\/etc-and-user-centered-tools\/"},"modified":"2005-09-29T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T16:57:12","slug":"etc-and-user-centered-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/09\/29\/etc-and-user-centered-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"ETC and user-centered tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1094'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone seems to think that developing tools around people&#8217;s daily<br \/>\nlives, on cleverly-designed platforms, is the Answer to lots of things<br \/>\n&#8211; the next iPod\/computer\/phone, new PCs for people in China&#8217;s urban<br \/>\nhouseholds, etc. <\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound terribly innovative to me; am I just a stick in the<br \/>\nmud?&nbsp; How can anyone get excited about a PC-like platform when<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s some real innovation being done for $100 PCs that torally<br \/>\nrethinks many layers in the development and distribution of<br \/>\ncomputing?&nbsp; Not that I think the $100 PC is the be-all or end-all<br \/>\nof what target consumers really need&#8230;&nbsp; I&#8217;m foolish enough to<br \/>\nthink that most things that end-users really need doesn&#8217;t get developed<br \/>\nat all.&nbsp; A completely silly suggestion, I know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to think that developing tools around people&#8217;s daily lives, on cleverly-designed platforms, is the Answer to lots of things &#8211; the next iPod\/computer\/phone, new PCs for people in China&#8217;s urban households, etc. It doesn&#8217;t sound terribly innovative to me; am I just a stick in the mud?&nbsp; How can anyone get excited about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-3C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}