So I drank my morning coffee, waiting for something to come along to cause me to spit it out. Something almost did.

10/GUI. In a word: I am completely stunned. I love hearing about how things are designed, especially things I consider to be beautiful, or elegant, or serve a specific purpose incredibly well. Having said that, the design and thought behind this re-imagining of the desktop is incredible. R. Clayton Miller nailed the drawbacks of current touch technology. He then went on and nailed what could be right about it.

Was it a perfect re-imagining? No. The keyboard mechanism would need work. Task switching seems intuitive, yet a bit clunky. The menus (local and global) are the lovely drab Linux menus we all know and love. Although it needs a bit of polishing, the basic idea is logical, elegant, and completely possible with today’s technology, nevermind tomorrow’s.

This is the future folks. Whoever gets here first wins, and right now it looks like R. Clayton Miller (@claymill on Twitter) has got an incredible idea. Somebody needs to hire this guy right now, give him a team, and let us see what they can do in 2-3 years of intense work and user testing. I can see a few interesting landing spots for this tech. 10buntu? OSX 10.10 (get it?! I couldn’t resist it)? Windows 10? Or something new and unique to blow us all away and create the next great OS vendor?

That is what I love about seeing the future: limitless possibilities. The hard part will be the waiting.