Summary:
This book talked a lot about how the use of technology in the world around us is ever increasing. It also talked about how the current design process that is used by many software developers is based off of what they feel the user wants, and by whats easy to code, or based off of features that they would want, and not necessarily based off what the user wants. The book also discusses the difference between people. How there are "Homo logicus" who wants to know how things work and is typically a programmer, and that there is then also "Homo sapiens" who just wants to use the system and doesn't care about the working parts.
Discussion:
I thought that some of the points presented in the first half of this book were very intriguing. I particularly enjoyed the discussion about "Homo Logicus vs Homo Sapiens." The more I read, the more I realized that what the author was saying was completely true. There are people who like to see how things work, and people who don't care how they work, but just want to use the system. I thought for the most part the first half of this book had some good points, although some of it was rather drawn out.
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Yeah he used the dancing bear way too much. It was a good point that there are people who like to see how things work, and other people who just want them to work but don't care how, but this doesn't mean that programmers (who want to see how things work) are never able to understand the other side of people (who just want things to work). He acted like we weren't even human!
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