Explaining Artifact Evolution
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When we interact with artifacts we are closely coupled at many temporal levels, both cognitively and physically. We think on paper in diagrams or words, we play with toys, we work with tools, and we live our lives largely within structured collections of artifacts. Artifacts often act like prostheses. After a day of working with nails and screws it must seem to a carpenter that his hands are hammers and screwdrivers. See figure 1. The same applies to more intellectual work. When we spend hours working in a word processor our focus is on the control and flow of words in the world, creating new phrases, moving others around, reading repeatedly. We are closely coupled.
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