Another great quote from “In the Bubble” where John Thackara about a conference on a “pervasive computing” conference held in Greece in 2003:

Greger Linden, a Finnish expert in “psychosocial computing,” anticipated, in another conference presentation, that when direct brain computer interface are implemented, “people will be the problem. Rather than concentrate on one thing at a time, which suits the software, people tend to think about other things. This messes up the results.”

Indeed. Wouldn’t life for the computer be so much simpler if the darned people would quit getting in the way?