
Pioneers: Omar Rizwan on shaping computers into friendlier forms
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Computers and Softfor Design
i wonder if there are kind of cultural constraints with the way our culture thinks about what does it mean to interact with the world. What if you had an islamic computer where, like, there's some prohibition on displaying pictures of people or animal so it becomes as completely vector display? That's sort of puzzling and alternate history. i think about in the 19 eighties, as we had a bunch of personal computers here in the us, like the apple two and m pc. And in japan, there was a completely different set of dominant personal computers from japanese companies. Because of the way that the japanese writing system works, you need better graphics to be able to
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