After all these years, user interfaces have long way to go

A few years ago I was having lunch with Tim O?Reilly, the founder of the publishing company of the same last name. The geeks among you will know the publisher I?m talking about.

The company?s book covers often have old etchings of animals: a llama on the cover of ?Learning Perl,? a rhino on the cover of ?JavaScript: The Definitive Guide,? a koala on the front of ?XML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide,? and so on. A well-known publisher in the tech world, O?Reilly books are found on bookshelves throughout geekdom.

During lunch I proposed a book to Tim: I…