In a World of Devices, the User is Central

Roger Kay of Forbes recently opined that the world is becoming more and more user-centric. He explains, “User-centric computing is a theme we can expect to hear articulated in many ways next week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The simple view of the shift from device-centric to user-centric computing goes like this: when all we had was one device — a PC, first to do our work and later to connect to the Internet — we adapted to the device. We learned how to wrestle it into more or less obeying our will. We became skilled at the arcane keystrokes of DOS commands and Lotus 1-2-3 in order to do productive work. We went to the machine.” Read more


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