September 1998
They've Really Got a Hold on Us
The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution
By Wade Roush
Some men see machines as they are and ask, "Why?" Donald Norman dreams of machines that never were and says, "Why not?"Actually, in this new book on the need for successors to the personal computer, Norman pursues both questions. And he answers them with the same wit, perceptiveness and prophetic zeal that made his 1988 book The Psychology of Everyday Things a minor classic.
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