This paper reviews the past present and future of Cognitive Ergonomics, as a discipline. The past, and in particular its shortcomings, is characterised in terms of an earlier description offered by Long (1987). The present is characterised in terms of the lessons assumed to have been learned by Cognitive Ergonomics, since that publication. The future is characterised in terms of lessons, which still remain to be learned. Last, the paper raises some general issues concerning Cognitive Ergonomics.
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