Immediacy

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Media

Philosophical idea of a relation between A and B with no intervening medium. Difficult (impossible?) to achieve in fact (cf McLuhan).

Comes up a lot, in various forms, in HCI:

• Bret Victor takes immediate connection between creator and creation as his life's animating principle
  
• "Fast feedback" is a common gesture at this. Gary Bernhardt tests 10 times per minute
  
• Fail Fast, on the business side