NUI vs. GUI

Here’s Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research giving a terrific presentation on Natural User Interfaces, and the fact that many of the “new” technologies have been around for many years. Well worth watching.

He’s the same age as I am, and like him, I remember many of those technologies that appeared back in the 1970s and 1980s, but which have all but been forgotten by the younger generation of engineers and designers. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it…