Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles
Bret Victor&#x27;s <i>&quot;A Brief Rant On The Future Of Interaction Design&quot;</i> is just as relevant now as it was back in 2011:<p>&gt; <i>There&#x27;s a reason that our fingertips have some of the densest areas of nerve endings on the body. This is how we experience the world close-up. This is how our tools talk to us. The sense of touch is essential to everything that humans have called &quot;work&quot; for millions of years.</i><p>&gt; <i>Now, take out your favorite Magical And Revolutionary Technology Device. Use it for a bit.</i><p>&gt; <i>What did you feel? Did it feel glassy? Did it have no connection whatsoever with the task you were performing? I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade.</i><p>&gt; <i>Is that so bad, to dump the tactile for the visual? Try this: close your eyes and tie your shoelaces. No problem at all, right? Now, how well do you think you could tie your shoes if your arm was asleep? Or even if your fingers were numb? When working with our hands, touch does the driving, and vision helps out from the back seat.</i><p>&gt; <i>Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It&#x27;s a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it&#x27;s the star player in every Vision Of The Future.</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...</a><p>(that second-to-last paragraph is surprisingly on the nose with the car metaphor)