Reading 2- Jon Good

In the Computers as Theater reading, there were many points brought up about early computing.  One of which was programmers trying to describe the functions of computers and how interaction with them could be understood to the non educated world of this realm.  The relation between the computer as a theatrical production was very interesting to me.  The fact that a computer could be explained as the stage being the desktop and the backstage area and wings being what drives the play or in this case, the processes in a computer.  With this in mind describing this representation to a user of a certain interface can be quite difficult.  There are simple explanations such as the mental models shown to describe the relation between the human input and how the computer can translate that message, do an action, and then translate the message from the action back into a way that the human can understand it.    

With this talk of interface interaction it's hard not to relate it to the new introduction of Windows 8.  My family personally are Windows 7 users.  Although, when the release of Windows 8 came out, I immediately bought it.  After having Windows 8 for some time I then decided to return back to Windows 7.  I think mostly the reason being for my switch back to Windows 7 came about in the artistic representation of the interface from the Windows designers.  In creating Windows 8, the artists created an internal vista that was meant to create an emotion of this new interface.  I feel and I think many others feel as if this interface was taken a little too far by the artists.  As stated in An Artistic Perspective "It's about creating imaginary worlds that have a special relationship to reality- worlds in which we can extend, amplify, and enrich our own capacities to think, feel, and act.