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Baroque Technology
As new interactive systems evolve, they frequently hit a sweet spot: A few new tricks to learn, and users gets tremendous benefits, simplifying their lives. But beyond that lies the dark phase of baroque technology: increasing complexity with little payoff. We will look at examples for both sweet-spot and baroque interactive technologies, from GPS devices to window systems, find out how to iden...
متن کاملLet's be baroque!
Received: 5 August 2005 Revised: 24 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 What happens if we abandon thinking about information systems (IS) in terms of fixed prescriptions or scientific models? What happens if we leave behind order, simplicity, sequence, and linearity, and in turn, embrace the sensuous, dramatic, vital, messy, and emotional? What a project for IT researchers! In this brie...
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In recent years, mobile phone penetration has increased dramatically throughout Latin America. Rising penetration numbers tell an important story, but only part of the story. To fully grasp the social, economic and political impact of mobile telephony, we need to understand appropriation: the process through which mobile phone users go beyond mere adoption to make the technology their own and t...
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Guitar chords with a flurry of strummed strings sonorities we gard as commonplace revolutionized the sound of music at the 1500s and opened up a new universe of musical thought in Western Melody and counterpoint had reigned supreme throughout the as the principal musical aspects of a composition, but around role was challenged by a startling new concept harmony. viously music consisted of horiz...
متن کامل[Medicine and disease in baroque art].
anatomist, but a doctor interested in the changes caused by disease in organs, to thus establish the cause of death. He was, therefore, the perfect representative of doctors of the time, attempting to apply scientific method (based on ‘causal knowledge’) to the interpretation of illness. Dr Tulp’s dissections (nearly always on the corpses of those sentenced to death) brought together followers ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/489030a