In his comment on my post from the other day, Alan Kay raises in intriguing point. As we venture forth into wide scale adaption of virtual reality, is full 3D immersion a distraction for human\/computer interfaces?<\/p>\n
We could make an anthropological argument in support of his thesis. Consider the last several thousand years of human tool building.<\/p>\n
Down through the ages we have developed many systems for recording and organizing, from cave paintings to stone tablets to papyri to books to computer screens to smart phones.<\/p>\n
For all of that time we have had 3D sculptural media, yet we never turn to them as organizational structures. Instead, we consistently turn to arrangements of flat surfaces.<\/p>\n
Perhaps there is something fundamental about how our brains work which privileges 2D, or at most 2.5D, for organizing information, regardless of the technology we use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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