Literary notes about interface (AI summary)
The term "interface" assumes a multifaceted role in literature, bridging the tangible and the abstract. In technical discourse, it denotes the physical and logical connections between devices—whether referring to the graphical user experience on a computer screen as in [1] or the network address assignments on routers as noted in [2]—while equally extending to the metaphorical realm. Authors sometimes use it to illustrate the critical boundaries where distinct systems meet, such as the surface where water and oil converge [3] or the point at which diverse cultural or ideological forces interact [4]. Moreover, in the context of language itself, some writings cast interface as the medium through which ideas and identities are communicated, underscoring its dual nature as both functional mechanism and symbolic construct [5, 6].
- ========================================= The user interface refers to what you get on your computer screen and how, when you call an online service.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - Each interface on a router has an unique address appropriate to the network to which it is connected.
— from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet by Ed Krol - What is true of water and oil in this respect also holds good for the boundary or interface of any two liquids which do not mix.
— from Liquid Drops and Globules, Their Formation and Movements
Three lectures delivered to popular audiences by Charles R. (Charles Robert) Darling - Successive forms of religious, scientific, ideological, political, and economic domination are examples of powerful interface mechanisms.
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin - Many impressive human accomplishments, probably the majority of them, are testimony to the powerful interface that literate language is.
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin - Ideally, interface should not affect the way people constitute themselves; that is, it should be neutral in respect to their identity.
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin