THANK YOU MR. BRET VICTOR.
I am very glad he wrote this article.
When I watched the video, I felt like I was watching the futuristic people from the movie Wall-E. If you haven’t seen the film then let me tell you, people become technologically advanced to the point that they don’t even need to walk. While the video wasn’t that extreme, I felt it wasn’t showing what humans are capable of doing when interacting with this technology too. And this is what Mr. Bret Victor points out too. The reason I thank him so much is because he not only pointed this out, but built a good case on how important our hands are in this human capability/interaction.
Now, there are some issues with his logic, don’t get me wrong. He argues that the future shouldn’t be limited by doing things with simply one finger when we have our whole bodies, but I do not think this should be applied in all cases. This especially comes to mind after Marriane Petit’s Assistive Technology workshop that I attended in which technology is designed with the disabled in mind. In this case, using only one finger to navigate through various tech could be life changing for someone who has limited mobility. So the idea itself has amazing merit, but I do agree that it is not for everyone.