Removing the buttons

Removing the buttons

Tomorrow's micro consumer doesn't want to know he's using a computer, so keep it simple. Today we are suffering a surfeit of combined electronic items typified by the cigarette lighter cum calculator. The future of the microprocessor lies in machines dedicated to one job and operated by people who are frightened by the word 'computer'. We already have the combined calculator top-watch, the tape-recording calculator and the calculating cigarette light. With the continuing reduction in costs, it will become possible to create ever more bizarre hybrids. But is this the real future of the micro-miniaturisation of electronics? And should it be?

 

Removing the buttons






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