Monday, April 21, 2003

The Grand Unified Wafer "Disks are a hack, not a design feature". So says Alan Cooper in About Face 2.0:The Essentials of Interaction Design. "They are a compromise, a dilution of the solid-state architecture of digital computers" he argues. I agree but that doesn't go far enough. All non-silicon systems are hacks. We need the entire computer on a single piece of silicon, including the power supply, display and other IO. I call this computer The Grand Unified Wafer. Until then, we'll need the hardware folks ;-) 9:41:07 PM    comment []