The story about the trowels is really good. And post internet trowels are/have changed quickly. Some tech is new, and per William Gibson now the future is evenl

The story about the trowels is really good. And post internet trowels are/have changed quickly. Some tech is new, and per William Gibson now the future is evenly distributed. This article is 2005, if the author could see trowels today I think they'd be amazed. But trowels have changed iteratively. Monitors and cameras are square because of manufacturing, although they are now also curved squares. I'm pretty sure currently we want as many pixels as we can afford within viewing distance. I don't thing circles help with that. A little of what the are doing here is the magic internet mirror paradox. They are solving problems just through the interface. "Select the HR wedge to move into employee hiring, status, reviews, etc." this is not an interface issue, it's getting the data correct issue. No one needs to save 5 seconds accessing this data. It's collating and storing and sharing it through APIs is where the problem is. This is not hard to prototype, I think you'd immediately see it's silly having unused pixels on the square interface, which is the same if it's a circle, you won't be jamming something else on your desk in that spot. I do like the idea of having a small screen for control. It might help with task shifting. Because your brain knows it is only an interface it won't get distracted using it. Maybe. Interesting idea.