Three Talks on GUIs

Three different ways of envisioning the future of computer interfaces and data manipulation…

1 – Blaise Aguera y Arcas: “Photosynth”
Data visualization and tag reuse at its best; fluidity and beauty all coming from Microsoft. Who would have thought? Apparently, not even the speaker himself! :-)
7 minutes & 12 seconds.

2 – Anand Agarawala: “BumpTop”
An old idea—the computer desktop as physical space—implemented to mimic aspects of physical reality like weight and momentum.
4 minutes & 51 seconds.

3 – Aza Raskin: “Away with Applications”
The command-line interface meets the desktop and its applications…a long talk but the demos are worth watching.
1 hour, 26 minutes & 30 seconds. Includes two Q&A sections which you can skip. The first one starts around minute 40 and lasts about 15 minutes; the second one starts at the end of the talk proper and goes until the end of the video.