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So the writer's idea of progress runs: command line → WIMP → touch → 3D. I think at least the first three are in order of effectiveness — descending. I suspec
by JasonFruit 14y ago
So the writer's idea of progress runs: command line → WIMP → touch → 3D. I think at least the first three are in order of effectiveness — descending. I suspect that the fourth, at least by my understanding of this idea, will continue the trend.
- corin_ 14y agoCertainly there are areas where command line beats a GUI, and where keyboard/mouse beat touchscreen, but that doesn't mean they are less effective. Would computers be doing as much as they do for many, many people if they were still 100% command line?
- JasonFruit 14y agoYou know, I bet they would. I think what's made so many people able to use a computer is not the new modes of interaction but something more powerful: time. As people have more exposure to computers, and as they become more aware of the interface conventions that develop over time, they get better at using them no matter what the interface style is. I wonder if people might be more useful to people if they had preserved a higher ratio of critical to non-essential visual data — which I think terminal applications do.