About a week ago, Microsoft posted “Future Vision Montage”, outlining what they believe the future of technology will offer us. As could be expected, the future is a dramatic and interactive environment filled with augmented reality. Information is always at your fingertips, literally, since everything mimics the now common touch driven interface.

Interaction designer Bret Victor wasn’t impressed with what he saw, and posted his very interesting perspective of what he feels the future of interaction design will be. Guess what? It isn’t all glass screens.

[…] I think hands are fantastic! Hands make us human! It’s even there in the word — human, man, mankind — manual, la mano, la main. Our hands literally define us.

Hands do two things. They are two utterly amazing things, and you rely on them every moment of the day, and most Future Interaction Concepts completely ignore both of them.

Hands feel things, and hands manipulate things.

His take on the matter is well thought out, and definitely worth a read.