Consider this: The current thrust of the usability community’s goals for high-tech design could become be the equivalent of the all the other spoils of modern advancements that in many ways largely hurt people over the long term. The usability culture could be considered equivalent to the fast food and junk food industry, which in satiating people’s desire to eat large amounts of processed, cheap food made in minutes instead of sitting down to the dinner table to eat well prepared meals slowly and with less stress, have contributed to the the obesity crisis occurring in the United States.

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