A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
To take this to an extreme, imagine that you're completely blind. Yeah, that's a tough life, but you can still pretty much take care of yourself and do the things that people do. Do you know what it's called when you lose all sense of touch? It's called paralysis, and they push you around in a wheelchair while you calculate black hole radiation.
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Visions of the future, like the one published recently by Microsoft, are not only creepy, but also limited and narrow in presenting what's possible. The article analyses tactile interactions possible with our hands, neglected in Microsoft's video.
