The original design goals were derived from two sources. The first was the work that was done in the building of the different ISP's and corporate intranets. The second source was the ideas and experiences that derived from the problems in the internal corporate use of computer technology for communication and worksharing. The distributed nature of Lunatech and most companies offers communicational challenges that can be greatly aided by modern computer communications. Specifications for a general client Computers are a tool to aid humans in obtaining their goals.
Computers are amongst other tasks good at holding, ordering and providing access to information.
Most information processed in a personal computer in the future will come from a source lying outside the system. This harvest of information needs to be dealt with in an efficient, effective and comfortable way. This is what the LunaRover ultimately is aimed to do. Effective Products need to aid in completing a task fully. The completion of a task should not be hard in any way.