RE: The coming predominance of user experience and technicalcommunications

["Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

$2.97 a gallon in Burlington.

Up here, they have a farm that is experimenting with automatic, computer
controlled self-serve milking machines. The cow gets ready, walks into the
machine, gets drained and goes back to making milk. Seems to be working and
it didn't take much time to train the cows.

This raises the question, if a cow can be trained to use an automatic milker
without a fancy GUI, how come us technically oriented technical writers
can't get the hang of a self-serve checkout machine at Home Depot?

Aren't we supposed to be at the top of the heap for cranial capacity?

Al Geist
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