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Here is another example from Microsoft - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSZuHGTcC8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSZuHGTcC8 Logically we should be seeing hi

by Sven7 13y ago

Here is another example from Microsoft - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSZuHGTcC8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSZuHGTcC8 Logically we should be seeing higher and higher levels of abstraction or languages, but unfortunately the process to get there is extremely messy... Just take a look at asm.js or NoSQL. 10 years ago I used to work in C and when things like asm.js come out it makes me shake my head and wonder about progress. It is not fair to call it going backward, as it really is a fix (on top of fixes on top of fixes...) trying to solve the eternal problem of incompatibly. And many of todays beautiful apps are built on an unholy amount of such fixes. But that gives me hope. Evolution is a highly messy and inefficient process but we will get to Bret Victor style interfaces soon enough...after wading through a whole lot of shit.

aheilbut 13y ago
That demo from Microsoft is nothing at all like Victor's demo; it seems to be a drawing-based interface to make the kinds of canned charts one can do in products like Excel.
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago
  Let's try another Microsoft research demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Xyoh-G6DE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Xyoh-G6DE Actually, I have older stuff from 2007 with videos embedded in a paper (I need to extract the videos to youtube): http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/179365/mcdirmid07live.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/179365/mcdirmid07live.pdf Its a long journey from here to there.
- Sven7 13y ago
  The description is "The Future of Human Data Interaction" and the MS demo fits the bill.