-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Jardine wrote: <snip> > My vision for 10 years is that there is no desktop. Seriously, the > 1970s called, they want their clunky and inefficient human to computer > interface back. If we are very lucky, 10 years from now people will > wonder just what we were thinking. The real revolution will begin once > we figure out how to actually use a computer. > > I suspect that gestures and or touch will dominate and mice will be as > quaint as a rotary telephone. There will likely always be some sort of > pen for the artists, various musical interfaces that mimic actual > instruments (these won't be needed but many like me will take a while to > leave those particular interfaces behind), but for most the traditional > UI will likely disappear, replaced by speech and gestures. > >> I'm not sold on that vision. There is a difference between data >> manipulation, which don't need to be done via command line. What >> doesn't work there is data entry in all it's various forms - so how do >> you enter your info into a zone file without your keyboard? > First, data entry is a waste of human time. OCR, and speech to text would be better for digitizing existing material.
As for zone files, how many people do you know that actual do this? I would be surprised if even 1% of the people I know actual edit zone files. Most of the people I know who modify DNS do so through some sort of a front end (web based) to make it easier so of all the people I know, I an count on one the number who actually edit a zone file. Regardless of what happens in 10 years, I expect to be holding on to my CLI. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpBBmsACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNhyQCeONnjBDLVXsjwE6yc0bijD3uM P5UAoKRj3ZS4YcgnbJteozOzDriLrRvT =a4F/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
