Killer Apps by Berger


According to Dr. Carl F. Berger at the University of Michigan, the next killer app must fit one or more of the following:

  1. it should do something we couldn't do before (remember VisiCalc?)
  2. it should do something so much more easily that we can't remember how we used the old system (the natural example here would be a WYSIWYG)
  3. it should integrate several applications to make a process so seamless that we can't imagine that any part could be separated (a web broswer is a good example of this)

This is from an interview in the March/April 2002 issue of EDUCAUSE (p. 22)


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