Dynamicland feels to me like The Mother of all Demos. Ahead of its time, groundbreaking practical applications of interactivity research. Dozens of companies a

Dynamicland feels to me like The Mother of all Demos. Ahead of its time, groundbreaking practical applications of interactivity research. Dozens of companies and projects will spring from this. Just give it time. We'll be back to using real objects instead of keyboards at some point in the near-future. Brett's right that a lot of the difficulty in actually using computers to produce things is in the translation of human interactions into a medium the computer can understand, and translating the data a computer outputs into a medium humans understand. We aren't two-dimensional creatures. The state of the art cannot remain in pictures and text forever. I'm not sold that everything will be done this way - some things will always need the precision of automated, textual input (see tool assisted speed runs in video-gaming if you think human beings can match pre-programmed precision inputs).