Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive than a sandwich?
Please do give Bret Victor’s post, “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design“. The post primarily focuses on expanding our ideas about interaction beyond the “picture under glass” metaphor. It definitely got me thinking:
Q. Human beings have the amazing capacity to ‘think’ an experience and physiologically experience what we thought. The downside of this capability is the stress we feel in our day to day lives. That said, do we need to offload the expressiveness of our minds to a new technology like a tactile mobile device? 
Q. How do we designers go about building upon the capabilities of our hands (and bodies) in new interfaces? Software and UI development is so much easier and cheaper to do. There are business models that support our efforts. Hardware innovation is very expensive. I’d love to explore new types of interactions but how does a small player compete with a Microsoft Kinect?
Just some open-ended questions. If you have any thoughts, please do share them.
Make sure to read the follow-up responses at the bottom of his post. Pretty interesting.
Just received this:
I’m nearly at the end of Youngme Moon’s,
Big ideas can be low-tech too
In a world where hi-tech ideas garner billion (yes billion) dollar valuations, it is refreshing to see low-tech ideas emerge that could make an impact. The Noteboard is a foldable whiteboard created by RGFT (Really Great Fancy Things). One area I can really see this product being useful is in mobile classrooms. At $5 per Noteboard, organizations such as UNICEF could easily include it in their mobile classroom kits that are distributed globally. Very cool!