You 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. A

You 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.