Bret Victor makes a really good point about the so called “Pictures under glass” concept of technology. I mean, as a bit of a fun fact, in my elementary school, our books were so in need of an update that the latest technology the textbooks about computer science, mention touchscreens as the latest technology. It’s quite laughable thinking about it. But I do have to agree, in a generation and era where we’re living a touchscreen oriented life, the magic does get lost along the way.
But thing is I think right now we have at least one example of trying to make technology adapt to fit our human body, being the reMarkable paper tablet. Initially when I was looking to buy some new technology I had this one goal in mind; that it can have a touchscreen for me to draw and write on. I primarly was looking at laptops that had touchscreens when I was introduced to the reMarkable. Now I thought, I mean its nothing special when it came to what it is and what it lacked as opposed to a conventional laptop. But after testing it out, it was astounding. It felt so natural to write on it, like I was writing in a notebook. I didn’t get that artifical feel that iPads give me and genuienly is what sold me on buying the reMarkable in the end.
At some point, we do have to ask ourselves, at what point is our life simulated by screen or whether our reality is literally a headset we can’t take off? (obviously I’m joking but it is getting quite dystopian no?)