my pants are vibrating

By anders pearson 20 Mar 2001

i occasionally like to indulge in rants on user interfaces and the future of technology. my thoughts basically boil down to the observation that 99% of interfaces to modern technology (especially computers) suck. technology should be transparent. it should work for us and not the other way around. if a device or program doesn’t save me time or work in the long run, i don’t want to use it.

as a demonstration of my thoughts on how technology should behave, i’ve posted a description of how i set up email forwarding to my cellphone. i’m pretty happy with the system i’ve got set up as it does what i want it to automatically, without any intervention or effort on my part.