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From: dickey@ssc-vax.UUCP (Frederick J Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
Summary: high tech reality
Message-ID: <2462@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 19:49:26 GMT
References: <263@gloom.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <263@gloom.UUCP>, cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf) writes:
> The following is a conceptualization of how I imagine that the next generation
> (not the NeXT, but the REAL next generation) of user-interfaces will work...
> 
> The Engineer enters his office in the morning and puts on his computer.
> Almost instantly, the plain off-white office is transformed.  Now there is
> a drawing table in front of him, a telephone, and all of the usual desk 
> accutraments.  He picks up his pen, and begins to add those last finishing 
> touches to the design for the Shuttle project.  Oops!  a mistake.  He turns
> the pen upside down and uses the eraser.  Perfect.  The phone rings... it's
> the boss... he wants a meeting in the small conference room.  (Good timing)

When I walk into my office (bay), reality comes up INSTANTLY. This is faster 
than ALMOST INSTANTLY, the speed of the interface of the future (IOTF). 
I pick up a pen, and I CAN WRITE WITH IT! The phone rings, and I CAN TALK ON IT!
All of this happens in REAL TIME! Incredible! Reality is faster than the
IOTF and it is a lot cheaper too. Why would I want the IOTF :-) ?