I really like the author’s enthusiasm in the haptic technology ( or any kind of technology that could create the described effect of a more realistic interaction). After I rewatched the video, it does feel that all the gadgets there are just better, bigger, thinner and more transparent iphones. Perhaps the author is describing something so futuristic that very few of us can even imagine what it is.
Let’s say in the future some sort of nano robots can let you “flip” a page, or let you “touch” your partner’s hand while you are thousands of miles away from each other. However, is that really a “page” you are flipping and a human hand you are touching. They sure feel like they are. Nobody would want to read an actual book because your computer would feel like a real book in every way to a point people would fail to distinguish a computer simulated feeling from a “real” feeling. Your computer is not just a thing, it becomes everything. Would that necessarily be a bad thing? I don’t know. But it will completely change the way humans perceive the world