A review by esquetee
Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate by Steven Johnson

5.0

I am loving this book and have fantasies about teaching a class using this as a textbook. It's like opening a time capsule from 1997 with wonderful surprises inside, such as the very first computer mouse and the views of computers in the 1940s, 1980s, and 1997. To put this book in some context - google.com and "blog" didn't even appear until a few months after this book was published, which makes his points about visual metaphor in the modern interface even more interesting, i think. Awesome little trip through interface history with several asides to Victorian literature and MTV thrown in along the way.