Is the Computer Desktop an Antique? - by Steven Johnson
An interesting article by Steve Johnson, author of Interface Culture. Personally, I think innovation in the computer interface is past due: technology has advanced to the point where we can try new things and interact in new ways. When I'm working with a text document and I go to save it, why doesn't my computer reccommend a spot for it in relation to other documents on the same topic? Why don't pictures automatically group themselves in useful ways, such as by date? Why don't more monitors have touch screens built in so I can move my files around physically? Maybe these are stupid ideas, but they just prove that computers have gotten to the point where these types of things are possible, and with every possibility come the chance for innovation and more useful ways of interacting with the new e-world.
Now if we could only make them stop crashing...