On the circuit

摘要

The theme this month is education. In my travels I came across an education story that I really liked. I wrote about it on page 37 of this issue. It struck me because it captures the changing user dynamic as younger people grow up with devices, taking signal quality for granted (when they even notice it) and assuming signal distribution that just a few years ago was not really possible. Where we gnashed our teeth over pixilation, latency, and bad EQ, they rail against inconvenience-expecting interfaces to flow with their thoughts just like we wanted music and pictures to flow without artifact. A fluent, intuitive user interface is their definition of clarity-sound and picture, not so much.