Man-Machine Relationship

I had never really thought much about a man-machine relationship before reading the article by Norman. I wanted to talk a little bit about his idea that humans "are analog devices following biological modes of operation." I found his theory interesting because as I said I had never thought of comparing humans to machines. It is true in the end of the article when Norman states that "people excel at qualitative considerations, machines at quantitative ones." But how true? I found the comparison interesting throughout the article because it was slightly funny to me. People made computers. Machines wouldn't be in existence without man. There has to be some sort of correlation between the inventor and the product that comes of it. All of the things that Norman said seem very true and accurate to me, but what does it really matter how alike/dislike humans are with machines. My view on the man-machine relationship is that if we are capable enough to operate a machine, then that's as much as we need. There are some people who will invent new machines and teach the people how to use it. But I feel that comparing a human to a machine is slightly foolish, because it's like comparing a cat to a cell phone. Two things that don't really correlate too much, but if you read way too far into it you may come up with a lot of information by comparing and contrasting to two. This isn't to say that I didn't think that what Norman had to say was at all inaccurate, but it just makes me wonder why he even bothered.
Zuckerman and McLaughlin basically showed me that there is so much that I don't know. I've always known the 'surface' information such as IP address, and HTML, but I've never known what so many of those stand for. The most interesting thing that I got from this article was the path that an e-mail takes when sent from one person to another. I feel like today, without machines, people would have a hard time surviving. After reading all the different machines the packets from one e-mail have to travel through it seems amazing that it's even possible. There was a lot from this article which was hard for me to understand simply because I had a lot of new vocabulary thrown at me at once, but it was helpful to understand how the internet really works.

Discussion Questions:
1. How will that man-machine relationship evolve in the future 100 years?
2. If, as discussed by Norman, it is true that "we live in a technology-centered world where the technology is not appropriate for people." do we think that this is eventually going to get out of control? Or are the people going to learn how to adapt to the ever changing technology of our world?
3. Do we really think there exists this whole man-machine relationship as extreme as Norman describes? Is he accurate? Would you argue some of his claims?