[the invisib1e hand]

future "big thing" is interface.

I envision a "live desktop." It's as thin as cardboard. Data is entered via digitized paper or keyboard, voice, or touch -- all options available. visual interface is either digitized paper, screen or audio -- again, all options open.

Think of the old wooden desk, with a digital blotter on top. And yes, there's a brief-case sized one as well. We will look back on these big plastic boxes the same way we look back on those room-sized calculators.

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Think of the old wooden desk, with a digital blotter on top. And yes, there's a brief-case sized one as well. We will look back on these big plastic boxes the same way we look back on those room-sized calculators.

Waaaay back when the mac first came out, someone famously said "The desktop metaphor works better on a screen the size of a desk."

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about 14 years ago Apple had a promotional video done by George Lucas and Jobs. It featured a notebbok size pad that was a computer. The computer had a "personal assistant" you used instead of a mouse. You asked it to do things instead of pointing and clicking. It was an amazing piece of work and you comment reminded me of it.

I have used macs since 1985 with a four year XP detour. Now I'm going back with a G-5 soon. No matter the technical aspects, apple is the leader with vision, style and human interface. I don't care what goes on inside the machine, give me the external benefits.