> Actually, that’s how it’s laid out, but not how I read it. I read it right-to-left, present-to-past. I often get disoriented with these interfaces and have assumed that staring at them long enough I will “figure it out,” but it doesn’t seem like I do. I have sometimes wondered if something as simple as writing “past” over one part of the grid and “present” or “now” or “you are here” might be helpful for orientation. > I find it very “natural” to watch a moment dissipate over time. It’s soothing, as if we are coming to terms with our own mortality. By the time an image finally leaves the screen, I am ready for it to go. There is something very emotional about these present-to-past grids. There is relief in recapturing something you thought was gone, and then perhaps sadness that once you have found that amusing sneeze or funny expression, it is about to leave the screen forever. Riffing on some of your “dreaming computer” concepts, it would be interesting if there was some second screen where, occasionally, a few of the images from the temporal grid stuck and were “remembered.” Maybe you could even touch favorite grid cells on the main screen such that they would “stick” to a second screen shortly after they departed the first—like flagging certain items on a conveyor belt for further inspection. Somehow, the idea of the second screen elsewhere in the lab being used as bucket for items on the first screen is spatially/architecturally interesting to me.