Text: the Next GUI
Perhaps the point-and-click interface will go away some day. Repeatedly, I find myself going to Google and typing "XYZ store locator" after hopelessly fishing through the flashy stab at a GUI on the XYZ web site.
Today, it was my cable company's channel listing page. Impatience with the cable company web page set in quickly. When I gave Google the name of the cable company and the word "listings," I immediately wound up right where I wanted to be. Google's becoming a first line of attack.
Text. It's the new GUI.
:)
I can only imagine our point-and-grunt troglodyte ancestors discovering the power and efficiency of language. Words, an effective form of communication. Who would have known?
Today, it was my cable company's channel listing page. Impatience with the cable company web page set in quickly. When I gave Google the name of the cable company and the word "listings," I immediately wound up right where I wanted to be. Google's becoming a first line of attack.
Text. It's the new GUI.
:)
I can only imagine our point-and-grunt troglodyte ancestors discovering the power and efficiency of language. Words, an effective form of communication. Who would have known?
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