Alas, our spatial computing journey seems to have taken many steps back. Our OSs treat icons on our desktops as theirs to do with as they please, rather than ou

Alas, our spatial computing journey seems to have taken many steps back. Our OSs treat icons on our desktops as theirs to do with as they please, rather than ours to keep where we want them. Window positions are forgotten, new windows are created pretty much at random anywhere the OS pleases. We can't arrange our files spatially. Instead, the OS talks to us through those dreaded "file open" dialogs, using abstractions of tables rather than spatial arrangements. We can't even arrange icons on our iOS home screens as we please — we have to stick to a predefined grid with predefined sizes and use a terrible interface to move them around. I do hope this will change in the future: our brains are wired for spatial memory and we should be making things easier for us by building software that is subservient to our needs, not the other way around.