Regardless of whether the author is right, it&#x27;s worth thinking about because it may well be the case that humans have a better affinity for graphic representations of spoken language than for pictorial representations of things in the world.<p>Ordinary people type web addresses into browsers...or heaven forfend, at least &quot;microsoft&quot; into their Google toolbar for IE8. There&#x27;s a point at which information redundancy is overwhelming even for people who don&#x27;t care about information theory or how the web works or anything else.<p>The WIMP interface was a great innovation. But it was built for a time when women were in the typing pool, entrepreneurs were called &quot;businessmen&quot;  and managers were afraid of catching keyboard kooties. The meteor hit and CEO&#x27;s type their own correspondence and answer phone calls on their direct line [which lives in their pocket].<p>There&#x27;s a case [and a reasonable counter case] to be made that WIMP was the installation program for widespread computing. Once the important system is up and running it can be discarded. The degree to which this is plausible correlates to the inverse to which one sees WIMP as an end in itself. Yesterday, it was rounded corners on shiny buttons, today it&#x27;s flat sharp corners. In the interim, people have learned from experience that pixels can&#x27;t cut human fingers. A buggy whip industry would count this as progress.