Jed sez:
> They are imposing the restrictions of present-day technology on a future > technology which works fine without those restrictions. People often do > this, as I described in my book. Of course they are doing this, just as you say so in your book. Isn't that often the case when a new paradigm changing technology makes an unscheduled intrusion? Too many of us lack vision. First we try to ram the round pegs of a new technology down into the square holes of an old technological paradigm - sometimes obnoxiously so. Eventually, we wise up. This reminds me of the old Gopher (Pre-Mosaic) days when one particular gopher designer tried to create a more "friendly" looking gopher app by mimicking the look and feel of a three ring binder. For some stupid reason they thought that if their app were to mimic the look and feel of a three ring binder it would not alienate the user. Of course, it didn't go anywhere. Gopher was quickly eclipsed by Mosaic, and then by Netscape, and then by... Actually as far as turning pages goes, we are still doing mimicking the look and feel of flipping paper on many tablets. Old habits die hard. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
