hvf, in in w.f.e. praiser preiser (ed.), environmental design research, vol2, dowden, hutchinson and rose, 1973.

as long as efficiency is the driving force i don't think there will be anything build but trivial machines. efficiency, as i understand it, is too much influenced by taylorism and this notion for sure doesn't allow unpredictably behaviour. ¿ for good or bad? don't know.

All machines we construct and buy are, hopefully, trivial machines. A toaster should toast, a washing machine wash, a motorcar should predictably respond to its driver's operations. In fact, all our efforts go into one direction, to create trivial machines or, if we encounter non-trivial machines, to convert them into trivial machines. The discovery of agriculture is the discovery that some aspects of Nature can be trivialized: If I till today, I shall have bread tomorrow. (hvf, perception of the future and the future of perception)

instead of using language as a tool with which to express thoughts and experience, we accept language as a tool that determines our thoughts and experience. (hvf)

i have seen the nth dimension. exciting, but also exhausting, multidimensional geometry. seen and heard from a really nice educator alfred inselberg. he worked at the biological computer laboratory from heinz von foerster in the 60s and gets the coin for being the inventor of parallel coordinates.