I believe that applications and operating systems shape the way we think. It’s only natural that people take the path of least resistance, and in the design world that means using tools that are easiest to use. You can see it in the evolution of the appearance of magazines, advertisements, and everything else that uses words and pictures. Compare anything printed in the early 1980s with those from the early 1990s and beyond, and you’ll see how QuarkXPress, Illustrator, and PostScript dramatically changed the direction of graphic design. The tools actually shaped the way we think, just as human language (another tool) does.

So, what happens when we NEED to frequently think beyond what our tool allows? We create new words, new meanings for existing words, and new programs for page layout…

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