HuskerLand

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Greetings from
Sponsored by The Greek Islands Restaurant 3821
Center St. Omaha
HuskerLand!
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Nebraska Football!
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Go Big Blue!
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Tailgate Parties!
And then, the Big Game!
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Typical Nebraska Food!
Spanikopita!
Souvlaki!
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Runza!
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Hot Pockets!
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Old West Heritage!
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Whats Wrong With This Information?

• Obsolete
• Biased
• Commercially-driven
• Screened for
• Price
• Accessibility
• Etc.

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Sensorial Interfaces

• Provide an easy way to get informationalbeit
  limited informationabout the world.
• Disneyland
• Windows
• Oriental Chicken McNuggets
• Sedona

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Kokopelli
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Sedona
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Sedona Vortex
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Freaky Vortex Stuff
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Crystals
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Why Do We Rely on Interfaces?
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Why Do We Rely on Interfaces?

• Because understanding and making our own
  decisions is hard.
• It takes too much time.
• There is too much information out therewe all
  have to make decisions about what to learn about.

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The Time Machine

• One way to tell the story

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The Time Machine

• Another way to tell the story

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But Who Has the Power?
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But Who Has the Power?

• Morlocks decide
• what people know
• what people believe
• what people understand

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Meteorology Morlocks

• Well, you can decide who these people are and
  what these people do.

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Meteorology Eloi

• Well, you can decide who these people are and
  what these people do.

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What Does This Tell Us About Computers?

• We all have to make decisions about what we are
  and are not going to understand deeply.

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Word Processing

• MS Word is easy
• You dont have to know ANYTHING about creation of
  documents to make pretty good looking stuff.
• Is this how professionals create documents?

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LaTeX (lay TECH)

• For typesetting fancy technical documents.

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FrameMaker

• For brochures, posters, etc.

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Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

• For professional image processing

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So Why Do We All Use Word?
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So Why Do We All Use Word?

• Because it is easy.
• Because it does things we need to do well enough
  to get by.
• Were not professional typesetters.

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Good Enough

• What does this say about what kind of
  meteorological software we should be using?
• If you are not a professional, who is?