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To: Doren who wrote (34092)7/20/2002 2:54:30 PM
From: HerbVic  Read Replies (1) of 213177
 
I don't think " The days of great innovation are over. " Stymied perhaps, but not over. In fact, I don't think that will ever happen. But, one does have to consider the inherent limitations of the current form factor.

A desktop computer is an information appliance bound by its form of presenting information in 2 dimensional pages. We may, perhaps, have reached a point where all of the innovative possibilities bound by that form have been exploited. That's not to say that other forms wont follow. In due time, of course.

Consider the World Board example. (All the links I have are expired) It is a proposed form of computing based on a convergence of wearable computing devices and GPS and potentially mini-gyrocompasses too. It encompasses an Internet type structure accessed through wireless communications with content indexed and accessed as a function of geographic location. The effect is that of a wearer getting heads up display data through sunglasses connected to an iPod like computer with GPS capability. The GPS tells the computer the wearer's geographic location. A mini-gyrocompass in the glasses tells the computer what direction the wearer is looking. Live streaming content of 2D and 3D data is fed visually to the wearer, superimposed over his normal field of vision using HUD technology.

Will that ever happen? Who can say? But it is an example of the form evolving in order to facilitate further innovation.

HerbVic
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