Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Thu 19th Feb 2004 20:06 UTC
No, I'm not going all "New Age" on you, this time I'm looking at how computers are going to get a 3rd dimension and how this will change the way we interact with them. The previous parts of this series have been based on extrapolations or previous history. This time I'm looking further forward, when technologies currently in long term development become available and open up a whole new realm of possibilities.
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the only interface that IMO can remotely compete to the 2D screen is something that is directly connected to your brain.
Either by emulating regular signals or use completely new ones. I don't know how the brain would react to a "new sense", perhaps there's someone here that knows more about brains? I find the subject interesting though. If the brain could learn to interact with this new sense it would allow us to do a lot of crazy things. But as I understand it we wouldn't be able to share memories but descriptions of our memories (somewhat like drawing a painting or telling a story). Just imagine getting your daily spam directly delivered to your brain
aah, it's an exciting thought though. Scary but exciting.
Anyway, mindcontrolled interfaces allready exists even though they are slow and simple at the moments, but I think they will replace the physical input devices in the long run because they can be a lot more effecient.
Voice controlled interfaces has to be one of the worst for general computing. It's noisy and slow. The fingers are faster than the mouth any day.