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> The best interface ever designed for the web is the google > page: one box, two buttons, and a human knowledge of terms. > It doesn't care if it is in a thick client or a thin client > because its brains aren't owned by either. Success varies by > the owner who is as effective as they are smart. Yup, but Tim talks of : [[ All computer applications fall into one of three baskets: information retrieval, database interaction, and content creation. History shows that the Web browser, or something like it, is the right way to do the first two. ]] Google similarly only covers the first two. But surely the 3-basket view is a very backwards-looking approach. Without content creation intimately linked with IR and *processing* I don't think we're going get anything like the full benefit of the web. All we have without the fusion is broadcast media, with at best a load more community channels. The browser is the best interface in the current environment in the same way the remote control is the best TV interface. Cheers, Danny.
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