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It's just skeuomorphism taken to the extreme.

We might not have to traverse miles of virtual hallways, but a lot of designers still seem to prefer to make us flick our fingers a lot. Each of us probably scrolls through hundreds of feet of virtual space every day. Before long, we'll probably begin to hear about whatever the index finger equivalent of carpal tunnel syndrome is.

But at least we don't have to swing our arms in midair for 8 hours a day like the poor folks in Minority Report.



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