The Web makes the desktop impotent. Desktop power will inevitably drag information out of remote servers onto desktops. Computers Today 21. No such unimpeded view exists. The computer mouse was a brilliant invention, but we can see today that it is a bad design.
Metaphors have a profound effect on computing.
Compared to a standard page of words, an actual desktop is big and a computer screen is small. We invented an ideal space for seeing and managing computerized information. Our landscape is imaginary, but you can still enter and move around it.