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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].
  1. ========================================= 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Successive forms of religious, scientific, ideological, political, and economic domination are examples of powerful interface mechanisms.
    — from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
  5. 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
  6. 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

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