Kartik Agaram, "Bicycles for the mind have to be see-through", Convivial Computing Salon, 2020.

http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200315.pdf [pdf; 25 pages]

Get it? When I look over at my bicycle I can see right through its frame. I can take in at a glance how the mechanism works, how the pedals connect up with the wheels, and how the wheels connect up with the brakes. And yet, when we try to build bicycles for the mind, we resort to “hiding” and “abstraction”.

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