Re: Ctrl+V
Interaction is already a bottleneck. It will get much worse as graphics, environment, and history experience their expected breakthroughs. To me, the implication is clear—the principles of information software and context-sensitive information graphics will become critical as technology improves.
The future will be context-sensitive. The future will not be interactive.
Are we preparing for this future? I look around, and see a generation of bright, inventive designers wasting their lives shoehorning obsolete interaction models onto crippled, impotent platforms. I see a generation of engineers wasting their lives mastering the carelessly-designed nuances of these dead-end platforms, and carelessly adding more. I see a generation of users wasting their lives pointing, clicking, dragging, typing, as gigahertz processors spin idly and gigabyte memories remember nothing.