Victor’s rant touches upon how modern technology, both the existing and proposed ones, is only utilizing very limited human capability — touching and sliding fingers on a glassy surface and vision.Even the proposed ones are only incrementing more elaborate visuals on lighter, less glassy surfaces but the principle is about the same. ( The video is unavailable so I’m only based on the images provided.)

The fact that human body has so much capabilities while the “technology” that are in use recently deploys so little of them is thought-provoking.

During the last summer I did a research that’s related to VR and AR applications. In fact, these applications are basically converting other glasses equipments (i.e. glasses, front-glass of a car) into a display screen. Nowadays I already feel like we do too much on screens – we play games/ watch videos during leisure time and take notes/ use productivity softwares during working time.And VR and AR, the pioneers of front-end technology, are still trying to make more uses of different type of screens.

I have been wearing glasses since the age of 8 and I always find it pitiful that my view of the world surrounding me has to be through lenses. But modern technology factually detach us from the physical world even more. The idea that technology should rethink about human body’s capability and not restricted to fingers sliding on a glassy surface is definitely worth considering. I wish that in the future we can have technology that will make use of more functionalities of our body and enable us do things we wouldn’t have imagined.