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When asked to project fifty years ahead, a scientist is in a bit of a quandary. It is easy to indulge in wishful thinking or promote favorite current projects and proposals, but it is a daunting task to anticipate what will actually come to pass in a time span that is eons long in our modern, accelerated age. If fifty years ago, when the ACM was founded, biologists had been asked to predict the next fifty years of biology, it would have taken amazing prescience to anticipate the science of molecular biology. Or for that matter, only a few years before the initiation of the ACM even those with the most insight about computing would have been completely unable to foresee today’s world of pervasive workstations, mobile communicators, and gigabit networking.
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Winograd, T. (1997). The Design of Interaction. In: Beyond Calculation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0685-9_12
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