*I'm a little vague on the form-factor distinctions here – for instance, if a "surface" is just a big sheet of inert Korean vinyl with some point-of-purchase QR codes printed on it, what's all "surfacey" about that? But let's cut the the chase: any world infested with all this roll-up, portable, bleeping, stroke-able stuff would be augmented as a matter of course. You'd have to augment it just to see what the heck was happening.
*The problem with guys like Forrester is their lack of criticality – any tech development's always an advance. Try to imagine one's self in a mid-century climate-crisis culvert, damp, hungry and homeless, ceaselessly fondling a busy interface that appears to be one grimy, five-cent sheet of 20-lb bond typewriter paper. Yup, that's all too plausible, but would any client pay you to forecast that? Heck no.
