Bye-Bye Browsers, Goodbye GUIs -- Hello ???

by Ed Yourdon, The Cutter Business Technology Council

Driven by ongoing technology trends of miniaturization and mobile computing combined with an increasing phenomenon of information overload, more diversified groups of users and types of application environments, and user backlash against user-hostile interfaces, computer-based products and systems will gradually shift away from traditional user interfaces in the next few years and will adopt a variety of new forms and factors.