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Scratching the Surface
Posted June 12th, 2007 by Kevin Wiliarty, Wesleyan University
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Of desktops and coffee tables: What's your favorite surface?
Are you ready for the next major operating-system metaphor? Scott Carlson in his "Wired Campus" column for the Chronicle of Higher Education and Kate Marek in a guest post for "Tame the Web" point to demonstration videos—a couple from Microsoft and one from Popular Mechanics—for Microsoft's new "surface computing." Marek speculates that surface computing will amount to a major paradigm shift, and the visually compelling demos left me feeling that she might be right. But what is the paradigm and what is the shift?
Are you ready for the next major operating-system metaphor? Scott Carlson in his "Wired Campus" column for the Chronicle of Higher Education and Kate Marek in a guest post for "Tame the Web" point to demonstration videos—a couple from Microsoft and one from Popular Mechanics—for Microsoft's new "surface computing." Marek speculates that surface computing will amount to a major paradigm shift, and the visually compelling demos left me feeling that she might be right. But what is the paradigm and what is the shift?
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