A bit late

In A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design, Bret Victor goes ballistic over some of those “Future of Technology” videos that have been doing the rounds of late. His problem: that the ideas contained therein are lame. Or, as he puts it:

This vision, from an interaction perspective, is not visionary. It’s a timid increment from the status quo, and the status quo, from an interaction perspective, is actually rather terrible.

He’s totally right. What we really need from our leaders, our technologists and our innovators is imagination that doesn’t just extend the status quo, it builds a future the mere mortals among us couldn’t picture. Otherwise, they’re just engaging in a slow, steady slide into a present that is simply a continuation of what we have now. And that—not merely from an interaction perspective—is the last thing we need.

(via thoughtyoushouldseethis)