| GUIs aren’t the end. |
GUIs (graphical user interfaces) were amazing on a 1MIPS Macintosh. Now that clock speeds are several hundred times that speed, are GUI interfaces several hundred times better?
We need a new interface that’s tantalizing at 500 MHz, great at 5 GHz, and a little boring at 500 GHz. Some possibilities:
- 3D and VR (virtual reality)
- Audio
- Speech (interpreting the spoken word)
- Ubiquity
- Appliances
- Agents
- Wearable computers
- Mobile/wireless computers
- Location-sensitive
We also need to go the other way – what are we missing on the low end?
- Appliances
- Focused applications (eg electronic rolodex)
- Smart badges
- Text-oriented applications (no fonts etc.)
[Written 9-1-1998.]