Actually, the cylinder is easier to tuck into a corner because of the space you need for the cables.

I'm not digging the glasses, wearables; like wallets and watches.  I feel like, "I'm not a borg."  I do not need glass.

We are really treading on having this tech surgically implanted, and I find that spooky.

double post...

sharke
minimize confusion for people who were new to computers and might have trouble internalizing the concept of computer "folders" and digital "files." So you had little Manila folder icons etc. These days, it's less and less clear why skeuomorphism should exist. Most everyone has grown up with computers or at least used them for decades. We don't really need these mental crutches any more. 

Folders and files exist for the most basic reason... they are a great metaphor for the hierarchy system used to store stuff. You can use Shelves and Boxes I suppose. Some folks might prefer Mama duck and baby ducks.
 
The idea of depending on search and automated filing systems is ok if you have a small data set. As the data set grows, hierarchical systems are the time honored way to organize and access stored information. The file cabinet metaphor works well because file cabinet/shelf/locker subset, realized within a hierarchical storage model, is a time honored system that refers all the way back to the great libraries of the ancient ages.
 
The only thing that has changed is, that now, it is possible for some goof ball to come along every few months and pretend that Sherlock+ will replace hierarchical cognition. It is usually obvious that the goofball with that idea has never succeeded on a big project or in a big operation that is actually responsible for getting stuff done and keeping records of the work.
 
This is why you see conditions where many businesses and institutions remain on Windows XP... because none of the goofball ideas seem appealing when you think of a computer as a tool to accomplish work with rather than a toy to entertain.
 
You can see parallels to this with other tools. Take language for example; it's such an effective tool that it evolves slowly. We don't see rapid changeover because the old stuff works pretty well. We enjoy adding new fresh idioms but we do not abandon the old forms because the old forms work ok.
 
The concept that new is somehow better than what has worked for a couple thousand years is only a hundred or so years old.
 
Personally I think that the shock of the new as an *idea* has started to play out and lots of people are learning they are happy settling for what works.
 
 
The OP was about window dressing on a GUI but then somehow the ideas deviated into predictions that we will soon discard the metaphors that illustrate the hierarchical nature of a database which is based on "stuff" stored as subsets in "containers". It doesn't matter if you use a Cartesian model or something based on a more complex matrix. The metaphor of "stuff" in "containers" has proven too useful to be abandoned just because some people have never seen a file cabinet.
 
Besides which, we've been able to change our Folder icons to "mama duck" and our file icons to "baby duck" for about 20 years now and... to tell you the truth... so far... only a few people have done it.
 
Good times.
 
best regards,
mike
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Karyn
Actually, the cylinder is easier to tuck into a corner because of the space you need for the cables.

I think they should go all wireless, then set it up as a drone vacuum. It then can super cool the CPU while making that James Dyson guy jealous that he didn't think up this awesomely great idea.
 
Plus I won't have to sweep up after Go-Go.
 
:-)

Small businesses may be sort of, "stock on xp," but big business are buying tablets left and right.  The philosophy now is, "Let Amazon, Google, or Microsoft; build the data centers, buy all the hardware, and manage it.  Its far less expensive, than running our own datacenters and I.T. departments.  If we need to use computers in the office, "BYO Phone, or here you go, have a tablet." 

 
I'd like to agree... but I don't think it's true.
 
What I see is that every one has been issued a tablet and they all bring their laptops along to do the work that needs to be done.
 
It's a running joke.
 
 
all the best,
mike

A lot of people are just plain faster at typing on a qwerty keyboard..   So that is why I think a lot of folk would still kinda, "hang on to the laptop as well."
 
Right now, voice interpretation still kind of sucks.  Sometimes I will send a text by voice, and its totally off a good 20% of the time.  That's unacceptable results for serious work.  
 
Actually one of my funnier voice 2 text, which was supposed to be something like, "I guess so buddy, but I'll see you later."  Turned into something like, "Whatever nanny, we got to work it better."
 
So obviously, if you are doing serious work, you are still far better off typing stuff out, and touch-screen qwerty is not as conducive to quick and accurate typing as it is on a plastic molded, "old school," omg, keyboard.
 
That's why I think the Surface is so slick, as its like a tablet, with an actual keyboard.  I just want to wait a couple of generations, before I dive in.  I want it to run music soft, as well as a desktop.
 
So, just in keeping with the thread.  I believe the Mac Pro's days are numbered.  Why should somebody buy one?  Even if you are the Pixar Department @ Walt Disney Studio's, can you not just use Virtual Machine's and Cloud Deployed Soft.
 
I suppose if you are adamant about controlling your intellectual property; - perhaps Disney is now a terrible example.   If you are "Hertz Rental Car."  You can do all your back office work with Virtual Machines, the occasional Laptop, an array of Tablets.  And obviously, all your employees have personal smartphones.
 
Its the world right now...
 
 
Cheers

I want to get away from the flat "desktop".  Why do they call it a desktop anyway?  The top of a desk is horizontal with many things placed/stacked/randomly piled on it, a computer screen is more like a wall/notice board with things pinned to it.
 
The current "desktop" model is very limited, specifically by the physical size and resolution of your display.  I want a 3D work space, the sort of view you get in first person view games.  It doesn't have to use 3D glasses, though it would work quite well, just the simple addition of depth.
 
How would it work?  Unless you're doing 3D modelling, every other application in both software and the real world places data on flat surfaces, so in time honoured fashion we stick to what we know and run apps on surfaces.  Create or open a Word document, Excel speadsheet, Photoshop, email, it displays as a floating window/surface that you place wherever you want within the space. Have multiple surfaces "open" and view them all or zoom into just one for full screen.  App/program icons could be as complex as a photo-realistic 3D model placed on a virtual desk or if you like simple, just a coloured panel with the app name on it.
 
I could fill a whole thread with my specs for a 3D work space, but you get the idea.  Microsoft and Apple returning to simple, flat, 2D graphics is a leap backwards in my view.

 
I can't figure out if you are joking or not.
 
You just described my studio.
 
It's all 3d.
 
I even have a chair with wheels so I can scoootch over and grab stuff.
 
 
 
 
Of course, I am joking... but in a serious way. :-)