Since yesterday I sort of intimated that Microsoft is envisioning a future that Apple was envisioning in 1987 I think I’ll be fair and post this video that is making the rounds today. Evidently, in the future, everything is an interface. Nice.
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This video reminded me a lot of something that Sun did in the early eighties, which I’m pretty certain predates Apple’s Macintosh, NeXT, etc. It was this same sort of idea of any dimension is an interface. I’ll have to look around and see if I can find it. And no doubt it predates Sun as well.
I was entirely wrong about the date. It was 1992, and the project was called Starfire. You can read the background on it here, as well as download the film:
http://www.asktog.com/starfire/