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Don't you think computer displays should be round?

Asked by imsok00l (108points) April 7th, 2013

What do you think would be the advantages and disadvantages of computer displays being round or sort of rectangular with smoothed-out corners? Aren’t our eyes better suited for those seeing how the eye is round?

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JLeslie's avatar

No.

I don’t think I would like reading without the left margin lining up.

Pachy's avatar

Cool in sci-fi movies, but not practical for the reason @JLeslie stated.

elbanditoroso's avatar

I think that computers were originally built on the concept of a printed page, like from a book. Every book that I have ever seen (except for a board book for by 2 year old grandkid), has been in some way rectangular. Sometimes an vertical rectangle, sometimes a horizontal rectangle, occasionally a square.

If you go back into history – say, Roman times – the concept of a parchment scroll was clearly rectangle-based (and that’s where we get the computer term ‘scrolling’). Even the Torah was built on rectangular sheets of parchment sewn together, although the scrolling was side to side rather than up and down.

I don’t see what a round computer page would accomplish in a positive way, and it would go against a highly successful paradigm.

woodcutter's avatar

Seems like a lot of wasted space. Like a house.They need to be square too. Round rooms don’t work unless a person just likes how stuff won’t fit.

mattbrowne's avatar

Don’t you think wheels should be square?

Pachy's avatar

Notwithstanding what I said above, I think—know—computers in 10, 20 years will be VERY different from the ones today—possibly in ways most of us can’t imagine. For proof of that, just compare today’s computers to those 20 years ago.

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