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Re: In The Beginning Was The Command Line

Unqualified code-monkey Garote submits his annotated version of Neal Stephenson's "In The Beginning Was The Command Line", updated to discuss UI design theory and fill in some of the gaps from the last five years. (And yes, he has been granted permission from Neal to do this.) There's plenty more to cover of course: Will the command-line last only as long as the keyboard? How will desktop search technology change our workflow? What about the 3D interface? Scroll to any random paragraph in the essay and you'll find something worth expounding on. What's ahead for the next five years?