Leonardo’s Laptop: Human needs and the new computing technologies by Ben Shneiderman, MIT Press, $24.95/£16.50, ISBN 0262194767 Reviewed by Barry Fox
LEONARDO da Vinci was “more than just a Renaissance geek”. He combined science with art and engineering and he would have done a better job of designing today’s computers than today’s computer designers. This is the interesting premise on which Ben Shneiderman, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park builds his book of essays.
The early parts of Leonardo’s Laptop remind us that today’s PCs waste time by crashing and infuriate us…
