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From the Ted Talk by Anand Agarawala: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop

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So, I kind of believe that we're in like the "cave-painting" era of computer ieactefrns. Like, they're very kind of — they don't go as deep or as emotionally engaging as they possibly could be and I'd like to cahnge all that. Hit me. OK. So I mean, this is the kind of status quo interface, right? It's very flat, kind of rigid. And OK, so you could sex it up and like go to a much more lickable Mac, you know, but really it's the kind of same old crap we've had for the last, you know, 30 yreas. (Laughter) (Applause) Like I think we really put up with a lot of crap with our computers. I mean it's point and click, it's like the meuns, inocs, it's all the kind of same thing.

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So, I kind of believe that we're in like the "cave-painting" era of computer __________. Like, they're very kind of — they don't go as deep or as emotionally engaging as they possibly could be and I'd like to ______ all that. Hit me. OK. So I mean, this is the kind of status quo interface, right? It's very flat, kind of rigid. And OK, so you could sex it up and like go to a much more lickable Mac, you know, but really it's the kind of same old crap we've had for the last, you know, 30 _____. (Laughter) (Applause) Like I think we really put up with a lot of crap with our computers. I mean it's point and click, it's like the _____, _____, it's all the kind of same thing.

Solution

  1. years
  2. menus
  3. icons
  4. change
  5. interfaces

Original Text

So, I kind of believe that we're in like the "cave-painting" era of computer interfaces. Like, they're very kind of — they don't go as deep or as emotionally engaging as they possibly could be and I'd like to change all that. Hit me. OK. So I mean, this is the kind of status quo interface, right? It's very flat, kind of rigid. And OK, so you could sex it up and like go to a much more lickable Mac, you know, but really it's the kind of same old crap we've had for the last, you know, 30 years. (Laughter) (Applause) Like I think we really put up with a lot of crap with our computers. I mean it's point and click, it's like the menus, icons, it's all the kind of same thing.

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