Touchscreens are pictures under glass, a transitional technology; calling them the future of interaction is like calling black-and-white the future of photography.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

In the views ondesignunder our view: The chat box was the door, not the room: the interface is being argued over again On the topicWhat does the interface become when a model is on the other side?under our view: The failure is the glass itself: hands, materials and physical feedback are what an interface owes us

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Bret Victor 8 Nov 2011 Interface designer and researcher

To me, claiming that Pictures Under Glass is the future of interaction is like claiming that black-and-white is the future of photography. It's obviously a transitional technology. And the sooner we transition, the better.

↗A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Designworrydream.com
8 Nov 2011

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All user interfaces will converge on the same shape: chat and gestures in, chat and video out.

Victor calls the touchscreen a transitional technology and says treating pictures under glass as the future of interaction is like calling black-and-white the future of photography. Ravikant expects convergence on chat and gestures in, chat and video out — which is pictures under glass with a microphone. The disagreement is about whether the body gets to come back.

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