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“Pictures Under Glass” is Revolutionary, Not Transitional - http://t.co/pnEm3Hn5

I was in a hurry, I think that post ended up sounding more insulting of @worrydream than intended. Will edit after meetings.

Edited: “Pictures Under Glass” is Revolutionary, Not Transitional - http://t.co/pnEm3Hn5 —sorry @worrydream I just disagree on implications

I’ve read The Future of Interaction Design 6+ times now and keep finding new things that I disagree with or he just flat out got wrong.

Close your eyes and open you hands. Have someone rest an open book on them. The weight gives you almost no real information.

Now grasp it with your fingers with your eyes still closed and try and guess which page you're on. Feels the thickness helps, but not much.

I'll admit, I love the ascetic of a book in my hand, but the tactility of it doesn't communicate specific information in a way that...

...would be needed for complex interactions such as we do with computers.

As I said in my post yesterday, I can see more tactile interfaces augmenting and enhancing, but not “revolutionizing”

Multi-Touch on a touch screen is truly revolutionary. Why does he have to completely write it off to inspire the future?

Understanding the revolutionary aspects of Pictures Under Glass will help inform the research and experimentation with new interfaces.

I *was* inspired by the post to think more about the long-term future of human-computer interaction, I just disagree with the direction.

@kbaxter Flying cars — were 20th century futurists wrong about the practicality, we just failed to make it happen, or are they still coming?

When we talk about “natural” interfaces it’s important to remember that the ideas and information we manipulate are inherently not physical.

On a day to day basis, very little of what I interact with digitally has concrete ties to the physical world. Some data does, but not much.

@kbaxter I forgot to finish the car logic. Transportation has evolved quite a bit, but we mostly still travel by car, plane, train, & boat.

@kbaxter And it wasn't for lack of vision.

@kbaxter Human-computer interaction may look very similar in 50 years, and that's not necessarily bad or avoidable. Practicality is a bitch.

@kbaxter I'm not a luddite, I want to experiment and try. Something just pissed me off about how haughtily he dismissed Pictures Under Glass

@kbaxter Especially given some of his very weak arguments about tactility. A few minutes reading about teaching blind children blew me away.