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The dawn of multi-touch

I think I need to get in touch with the author of this piece. It's not that adequate to quote Engelbart's mouse - as something of 'dying' or going obsolete. In essence, he innovated mouse for 'team members' who'd work with his group workstation. Those day's technological limitation made mouse as manipulation device, but idea was that there is a workstation which group, team of people can use as work base, and the rest was just implementation variations. In that sense by having these surface technology thing on table top, we are kind of going back to Engelbart's original vision and suggestion after 30 or 40 years of detour. As accurately said in article by one expert, we often don't know what to do with technology, just manipulating shapes and so on. And I believe that's what people like Alan Kay or Esther Dyson have been saying - for a long time.

11 Oct 2007

5:04 pm