e., the interfaces require
specific knowledge and specific sequences of specific
commands).
Even the most "user-friendly" interface is way too complicated
for the typical user. The average PC is hundreds of times more
complicated than your average TV. Even the VCR - far less
complex than the PC - is a challenge. How many people use the
full range of a VCR's options?
The ultimate interface, in my view, should be:
(a) Self-assembling - it should reconstruct itself, from time
to time, fluidly
(b) Self-recursive - it should be able to observe and analyze
its own behavior
(c) Learning-capable - it should learn from its experience
(d) Self-modifying - it should modify itself according to its
accumulated experience
(e) History-recording
It must possess a "picture of the world" (a-la artificial
intelligence) - preferably including itself, the user, and
their cumulative interactions.
It must regard all other "intelligent" machines in its
"world" (the user being only one of them) as its "clients".
It must, therefore, be able to communicate with them in a
natural language.
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