Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?

Scott Jenson wrote a Mastodon message that brought me to his 43min talk about the issue that we've got hardly any innvation going on on our computer desktops. I've already mentioned that in articles like that one where I think that hardware is the only remaining innocation factor. Or that one where I would like to see the world abandonning the rest of the desktop metaphor because of its negative impact on our user interfaes.

Scott is well known in the field of user experience (UX) and interface design. He contributed ideas to Apple, Symbian, Google, Mastodon and Home Assistant.

Please do watch his talk where he promotes the idea of loops, gives recommendation to KDE, explains the issues with Microsoft Recall and mentions awesome projects like Ink & Switch, Dynamicland and other resources that are worth your time.

Once again, this talk confirms my presumption when I was doing research for my PhD that the desktop UI is stuck in a local optimum where we can't escape.