This post at NooFace pretty much says it all - this is THE source for great info on post-pc UIs: http://nooface.net/faq.shtml
Notes:
- Post-PC does not suggest that PC is becoming irrelevant
- Central role as driver of innovation is waning - focusing more on manufacturing/distrib capacity versus innovating on product side
- Creates a window of opportunity [ben: i think being realized first in movies]
- 1billion PCS shipped last year. 6.5billion people don't have PCs [we can already see them taking up mobile instead of PCs]
- The WIMP UI (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing Device) has been in use since 1984 - designed for a computing environment that is much different than ours today. Aimed at office automation to support small workgroups and a few thousand docs.
- Most users of Post-PC interfaces will not have an ingrained sense of WIMP being defacto
- Several models have emerged:
- Immersive computing -
- Mobile Computing
- Invisible Computing
- Heirarchy is a big problem - with lots of upstart solutions (tagging, semantic web)
- Linux/opensource is a big player in the emerging space
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