future collaboration

every so often people imagine the technology future. i love the concept videos that are sometimes produced. my first experience of that was the knowledge navigator video from twenty years ago. this concept video by adaptive path is surprisingly similar, though much more achievable finally:

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path

notice the highlighting as objects are dragged across frames. that gave me a moment of nostalgia. this is the same feedback we developed at apple when expanding the drag and drop interface in the early 90’s. i’m on the patent for that but it’s just about to expire i think. yikes, have i really been doing this that long?

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