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The "board" part of Weiser's original "pads, tabs, and boards" vision [0] always made logical sense, but for some reason never realized itself. I'm a bigger fan
by GuiA 10y ago
The "board" part of Weiser's original "pads, tabs, and boards" vision [0] always made logical sense, but for some reason never realized itself. I'm a bigger fan of the tabletop form factor myself (see for example the original "surface"). It'll be interesting to see how this grows.
> to boot, it's a piece of hardware that it got right even in version one
Except it's not version one; see the surface and surface 2 before the current surface :)
[0] http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/SciAmDraft3.html
- jimbokun 10y agoThat is an outstanding work of futurology! It gets a lot right, and the parts they get wrong are wrong for interesting and fascinating reasons. Comes really close to forecasting the smart phone, but instead of an intensely personal device, they envision very similar devices that are shared and spread out through the environment. Surface Hub seems to have struck a nerve for the "shared environment" paradigm, wonder if there are still other opportunities in the "pads and tabs" paradigms. What could be done with "virtual post it notes", for example, whose content is always kept up to date, and placed in the context where they are most relevant?
- Sanddancer 10y agoAbsolutely, though the biggest problems are the walled gardens. Personal pads are a thing -- the various assistants from google, ms, and apple will already do things like take reminders in the form of "remind me to x at y time" or "remind me to z when I'm at w". However, sharing those notes in a reasonable way still isn't a thing as far as I can tell.