This fascination with graphical objects doesn’t make things easier. We are in desperate need of uncluttering the desktop, the hard drive, the social web, our bookmarks, and my office. And as long as the PC doesn’t understand all this on a human level (AI) we cannot expect it to do any cleaning up for us, because things get lost. I still lose things even though I studied computer science, frantically add tags to everything and use google desktop to find what’s long forgotten.

XML is the quintessential God of interoperability, but it still has to be mapped to actual meaning withing the context of the real world, and that’s what a computer still cannot do.

Web 2.0 and not even web 3.0 will solve this. We need actual helping assistants that understand us : Artifical Intelligence.

My prediction: Smooth inline AJAX forms and popups will rule the future for some time. People are used to have things “boxy”.

Isn’t that backwards thinking? Anything more complex than what it currently is would be a failure IMO.

FWIW… I hate video games, the only time I can play them is when I’m drunk with a group of friends. If we translate that requisite over to web browsing, I’d be dead of cirrhosis in a few weeks.

And attractive women farmers who watch South Park will be “remixing” charts and graphs and listening to news podcasts on their tractors.

Riiiiight.