User:AlainV
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I have been doing sometimes intensive, sometimes relaxed, research on the nature of virtual desktops for the last 9 years. Before that I did regular readings on digital documents and their gradual introduction in office environments.
My research on glyphs, icons, thumbnails and the myriad ways of giving an original graphic identity to digital documents is not quite ready for prime time. On the other hand the readings, the notes, the references I have taken down on the topic of desks and desktops should really go out somewhere. This is why I have started writing a series of Wikipedia articles. I am doing it very gradually, starting at A with Armoire desk and adding a bit every day, with more articles at first and then some "encyclopedic" items to the same articles, like references and illustrations. The list of desk forms and types is partly a summary of the desk articles I have started.
I am also making additions to related articles such as ones dealing with the user interface and others dealing with the industrial revolution. The different phases of the industrial revolution (or the first industrial revolution, the second industrial revolution and so on, if you prefer these terms) all tie these elements together from an historical point of view. The article on the office of the future and others linked to it tie up things from the point of view of the user interface issue.
And I am making a few additions to articles related to Military History and to the History of Technology.
And I made the Whippet disambiguation page
Whenever I am given the choice, I place my contributions in Wikipedia in the public domain.