9:17 only on second round of slides *cries*

Question 1

killer application

Answer 1

Software so compelling that consumers buy the hardware to run it
Still skews toward business use, but many general applications

example: Apple’s Visicalc

Question 2

Apple’s Visicalc

Answer 2

platform dependent
○ Closed architecture model

Question 3

Open Architecture model

Answer 3

Easy to add, upgrade & swap components with other computers

example: IBM (“IBM compatible clones” take off; Microsoft wins key role as software supplier)

Question 4

Command line interface

Answer 4

Typed text commands
No other visual elements
Invented by Douglas Engelbart (who also invented the mouse)

Question 5

Douglas Engelbart: Augmenting human intellect

Answer 5

“The complexity of the problems facing
mankind [was] growing faster than our
ability to solve them.

Therefore, finding ways to augment our
intellect would seem to be both a
necessary and a desirable goal.”

Question 6

Graphical User Interface

Answer 6

Relies on familiar metaphors (so use requires little training)
Remediation:
○ Blending features of new and old ICTs
○ ICTs borrow from, adapt to, and absorb each other

example: Apple Macintosh GUI 1984

Question 7

explain computing as cultural liberator

Answer 7

when people thought of computing, they thought of war and government. thus ads were created to change consumers’ way of thinking surrounding computers. hence counterculture becoming popular.

computers were seen as revolutionary tools of
cultural liberation and a contrast to shared
resource and commodity visions