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Rage Against the Machines

Posted by michael on from the broken-dreams dept.

wiredbeat2000 writes "Kent Norman is a cognitive psychologist and director of the Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the University of Maryland. He studies -- and makes films about -- why people lose it, and smash their computers, PDAs, mice, ect. MIT's Technology Review has a story about his lab."

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  1. People who do that sort of thing... by eno2001 · · Score: 1, Troll

    ..should be locked up for life. Machines are beautiful.

    --
    -"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
  2. What do you expect? by mikeophile · · Score: 1, Troll

    We're not that much more evolved from chimpanzees.

    Some less than others.