Linked by Kevin Adams on Thu 26th Dec 2002 03:38 UTC
Pahtz writes: "A very alpha release of The Humane Environment (THE) for MacOS was made on Christmas Eve. Jef Raskin, creator Apple's Macintosh, and author of the book "The Humane Interface", is the leader of the open-source THE Development Team."
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THE seems to be going in the opposite direction of intuitive/productive since it doesn't seem to have a sound metaphor. The human mind tends to function spacially and associatively. Neither of these qualities appear to be present in THE.
I see the future having multi-tiered displays that allow for spacial representation and associative groupings coupled with VR and voice input devices.
It is very unclear how you can intuitively find relationships between multiple elements at a DOS prompt