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by jyzzmoe 4130 days ago
Remember the gorilla arm.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html

5 comments

Something like gorilla-arm might be good thing: Humans probably aren't supposed to be sitting in front of a computer for hours at a time; gorilla-arm is just a non-dismissible signal that it's time to take a break.
You can only go so long at a whiteboard, what saves us is that we usually spend more time taking than writing.
Yeah, looking at this, I got the feeling that it was more "How Hollywood wants the future to look" (see Minority Report) vs. what will actually be useful and, most importantly, economical.
Ah yes, the failure of white boards to catch on.
Also: glare-free screens. I wonder how they solved that one?
Yep, touch screens got totally destroyed by this.