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> Signal: That's a major hurdle for developers to overcome, but it probably
> won't seem like much of a breakthrough to users. How will products change
> in
> an obvious visual way that would be apparent from, say, looking at an ad
> for
> a computer of the future?
>
> Smith: I don't think mice will be around forever. We'll move more towards
> something that allows you to bring the desktop metaphor closer to home,
> closer to reality. You could imagine your office desk actually being a
> display, and you actually manipulate information right on the desk.
>
> Signal: What gets rid of the mice? Voice?
>
> Smith: Not necessarily. You may be writing on the desk as you do now, with
> a
> pen of some sort, or using a lot of the tools you would use today. They
> might be touch sensitive to some degree, such that you could move things
> around by touching them. We're looking more and more towards making the
> abstraction more and more concrete. Voice has its place, but not as big a
> role as some people think it does. People will find they don't really want
> to talk to their computer. Not only that, but it's not very efficient.
> Imagine a voice driven car and telling it to take a left turn, but not
> specifying quite enough detail.
>
> Signal: If you had the super deluxe model, all you'd have to say is "take
> me
> to the airport". Can you somehow characterize any of the work you've
> actually done on future products?
>
> Smith: The only thing I can really say is that it's been looking down the
> line five years or so, with respect to what hardware will be available. A
> lot of the ideas people have had, Alan Kay in particular, who is now an
> Apple Fellow, require a significant amount of hardware. Some of those
> ideas
> are probably going to see the light of day in the not too distant future,
> as
> the hardware developers catch up with the minds of the software
> developers."
>
> END OF PART 6
>
> Regards,
> David T. Craig
>
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