Are touch-screen displays the next big thing when it comes to desktop PCs?
I often get a kick out of the fact that people repeat the same mistakes over and over again. When Xerox executives first saw a Graphical UI and a mouse they thought it was a toy that no one would want. Yet today Microsoft and Apple are household names and besides, when was the last time you saw the Xerox brand on anything? When Windows came out, folks just couldn’t see the advantage of moving away from the perfectly good command line interface and that no one would ever want this thing, now 100s of millions of copies later, Windows (love it or hate it) is the current dominant product and the MacOS, which sports a similar Xerox based interface, is the fastest growing. And then there was Microsoft Bob which many thought no one in their right mind would ever want, and, well, in that case they were right; though I still think the idea had merit, it was just decades ahead of where technology needed to be to make the result acceptable. In the end, Bob was a bridge too far, but there is a goo
