It has turn of the century optimism about physical interfaces for the internet which has since abated (since we discovered that people won’t use that stuff because it’s too much hassle). It seems obvious to me that digital tables and digital walls are much more cumbersome than, say, finding something on your RSS aggregator, copying the link to your coworkers via IM, and having a discussion about it accross the desk. It seems like a solution to a problem for which much better solutions already exist.

But worse, if you take the digital layer away, it looks like a badly laid out office.

I’m disappointed.