The limits of innovation

My recent post on why the future of UI will be boring has upset some folks. I tried to clarify that although my prediction is depressing in a way, I don't make it because I like it. It's simply that I believe the best and most honest view of the future of replacing keyboards, mice and GUIs is less than good.

But there is a general theory at work here that perhaps I didn't express well.

One critique that best raised this gripe was this from Baldur Bjarnason:

What I'm arguing is that automobiles...