“I always said the next interface would be Quake,” said Steve Capps, one of the designers of the original Macintosh interface, referring to the popular video game. “How long will it be before you come out of the subway and you hold up your screen to get a better view of what you’re looking at in the physical world?”

via The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives – NYTimes.com.

John Markoff hits paydirt with this story. Like it or hate it, this is going to be one of those disruptive technologies that is going to make some fortunes and destroy some as it unbalances the way things have been. More on this later. Thanks to Thom Clark for sending me a link.