ABSTRACT
At some time during most courses in research design, graduate students have heard this advice: Do not design your research around lab equipment. In spite of this warning, hundreds of dissertations were done with the memory drum, thousands with the Skinner box, and now equal numbers of students are coding video tapes. Are we designing a cognitive science based on the convenience of the equipment we have available? Perhaps graduate students should spend at least one year designing research that should be done, regardless of whether the technology is there to do it. In this spirit the current chapter is written. The emphasis falls on what should be built, rather than what has been built. Call it “Future Tech.”
