Screen Resolution - more please!
In order for computing to really be useful we need monitors the size of our entire desk surface. Not these piddly 1280x1024 screens that most of us work on.
Having a digital workspace that allows you to really spread out all your "stuff" would really help you to keep your train of thought and see everything in front of you at once. It's how we really live on our desks.
When we sit down to work on something we spread everything out so we can have quick access to information or lists or other things we need to reference without having to dig through a single pile of stuff. This is how monitors should be.
Update:
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Saw an article about a new CURVED ultra-wide-screen by Ostendo Technologies called the CRVD. It sports a 2880 x 900 screen resolution at about 41" wide and 13" tall. That's getting close to our ultimate 5000 x 3000 max practical screen resolution for a desktop monitor. I bet someone could easily manufacture a 5000 x 3000 screen resolution monitor except that it would probably cost quite a bit and they may be nervous about the sellability of a monitor that big. I'd buy one. And if they marketed it correctly I bet a lot of other people would buy them too.
Additionally a few months ago I saw an obscure reference to another high resolution monitor called the Big Bertha from IBM (model number t220 and t221). It's an LCD monitor they produced in 2001 which had a mind blowing 3840 x 2400 screen resolution. All this in about a 22" diagonal. That is approaching print quality a pixel density of 204 per inch. Much printing today runs about 300 dots per inch and higher.
I'm hoping for another big order of magnitude push in screen resolution to get to that magic 5000 x 3000 threshold. Then we could really get stuff done in our digital lives instead of spending so much time switching between windows and loosing train of thought or getting distracted.
So manufacturers and product managers of monitors, get to work and bring it on.
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