You wait 10 years for a paradigm shift and 3 come along at once.

Jason at Webomatica says We Need Another Paradigm Shift On The Desktop:

Here’s a short list of stuff that would make me run out and buy a new Mac:

Graphically rich ways of visualizing my data (all that Tufte stuff).
Really tiny, portable hardware.
Motion detection.
Eliminate the application / file model.
Written language comprehension.
Pattern recognition. Realize I’m doing a task repeatedly and create a scheduled task. Basically, a computer that learns.
Image recognition. Can’t the computer realize half of my photos are of the same cat and label the rest based on a couple of initial tags?
Voice recognition.
Programming for anybody.

I say: Careful what you wish for Jason. There are at least 5 of those that Apple are delivering or developing with Leopard/iPhone/Safari-Web Kit/Mac hardware. It's all coming together quite nicely.

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