how we interact with our tools · Adam Wiggins

Core OS interactions like copy-paste, multitasks, and multitouch have stagnated. Maybe we lack the right institutions for innovation.

how we interact with our tools Consider the humble interaction of copy-paste. Doing creative or professional work on a computer would be unthinkable without it. Yet it has many flaws—visibility of the buffer contents, as one example. Why haven't we been able to improve on this since the introduction of the clipboard in 1983? This is just one example: most core interactions like overlapping windows, task-switching, command lines, hyperlinks, tabbed browsing, and pinch to zoom are a decade or more old. Perhaps the tech industry doesn't have much ambition here. Some interaction innovation…

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