People have been accommodating computers long enough; it's time for computers to accommodate people. So says Kevin Roddy, a lecturer in medieval studies and academic coordinator for information technology at UC Davis. In research and teaching, Roddy shares a way of thinking about computers and the Internet somewhere between electronic evangelicals who eagerly embrace all new technology and technophobes who demonize their cold-wired machines. "We're a technological species; we've always had to wrestle with how to accommodate technology," Roddy says. Roddy finds tremendous promise in opportunities opened up by more powerful computers and Internet access, but he believes that promise will be fulfilled only when machines and systems are designed to be more responsive to humans. For example, the current computer keypad comes from a manual typewriter design actually calculated to slow typists down to prevent mechanical keys from jamming. And who can find all the amazing information on the Internet without knowing rather arcane ways of cataloguing and searching? "New technologies offer a vast occasion to enrich our lives," he says, "but we need to concentrate on making it more accessible."