Dirt: Desktop was the place

To make things worse, it turns out that the desktop metaphor underlying so much of our computing was not equipped to handle it either. In response to the increased stimuli, our Desktops simply started generating more clutter. Windows upon windows of tabs and tabs, folders within folders of Untitled(1). Never-ending, nebulous clutter.

we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars