My brain storming on the Desktop of the future…

Desktop abstraction idea.

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My idea simply is to use the 3d capabilities of modern processors and operating systems to make the idea of the desktop expand to a more usable less confined workspace. Think of the desktop work areas replacing or becoming an ordinary part of desktop icons allowing users to see there work areas as tunnels. This allows the illusion of items closer to the surface being larger etc and possibly alleviating the cluttered look to current desktops.

 

To think more precisely of this abstraction would lend itself to being almost workspace like. The work-spaces that have been used in Unix and Linux for years and to some extent third-party Windows add-ons.

 

The idea could go further and sort of use the virtual views that are used in Second Life and game applications. Where a user could literally navigate to their “file cabinet” in their office “workspace” and physically work in the environment as playing a game.

The collaboration needed between applications and such could bring endless ideas and possibilities to the desktop abstraction.

 

This also brings a new visual futuristic approach to computing seeming to only be taken advantage of by game programmers and designers. The ideas for users of various handicaps could be endless as well as the navigation doesn’t involve so much “digging” in and out of items or icons that you are looking for.

 

Obviously something of this level of interaction would be a monumental undertaking but could ultimately bring computing to the next level and move us away from the current eye-candy war being fought by designers and technologists alike at this time. The future is Virtual Desktop Rooms, OS domains on the client. That will at times integrate very well with the distributed nature (think internet) of our office and work area space today.

 

On a side note my programming skills are at let us say at a stage of development which would only go to confirm my inability to think inside the box. So much for a first time learning project for a program.

By Joseph Michael Ryan Sr. Baltimore ,MD jryanitpro@gmail.com