Technophobia The psychological impact of Information Technology
Added by: Bouri | Karma: 140.37 | Other | 6 August 2014
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Technophobia The psychological impact of Information Technology
In his book The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman describes how technology enables increasing functionality which in turn increases complexity. He cites the example of a digital watch having far more functions than a traditional analog watch (stop-watch, alarm, countdown timer, etc.) and yet being far more complicated to set the time (the original function).
Spindler's latest romantic suspense moves fast and takes no prisoners. Kate and Richard Ryan, the perfect couple (money, good looks, successful power careers, great house on Lake Pontchartrain), adopt a baby girl to make their lives complete. Unbeknownst to them, the birth mother, Julianna, a young woman on the run from her ex-lover, CIA contract-killer John Powers, is more than a tad unhinged. Unable to tear herself from the beautiful lives of the Ryans, Julianna falls for Richard and becomes his mistress.
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