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Thursday, January 03, 2002
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000000432jan03.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology Just Beyond Our Windows By ERIC B. HANSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER ... "The Windows environment is not the environment that is going to take us into next century," said David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University and chief science officer at Mirror World Technologies. "It's out of control. It's out of hand. It was designed for a vastly different and vastly simpler information world."... "When you give a digital camera to someone and they can take thousands of photos, the task of managing those photos, of organizing them, of sending them to other people or just browsing them, becomes terribly hard with the current interface," said Daniel C. Robbins, 3-D Interface Designer at Microsoft Research. "We're trying to make that easier." Robbins believes that one way to deal with the massive amounts of data on computers is to transform the flat digital desktop into a three-dimensional landscape that works with the natural human ability to organize information spatially....
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