An abiding fantasy of the digital age imagines the computer so attuned to human desire that it responds almost instantly to the user’s slightest gesture. This ideal computer would require no mediation to grasp and execute the user’s instructions. The human complement to this machine would be the ideal user, one who has internalized the computer’s capacities to such a degree that they feel natural; she would offer her commands in a language already assimilable to the digital algorithms of the computer. This fantasy of immediacy, identified in Jay Bolter’ and Richard Grusin’s Remediation as one of two opposed drives that characterize new media, locates its telos in the disappearance of the interface. It is tempting to regard the user interface as a crutch, an intermediary that sullies the otherwise pure relationship we could have to the digital domain “inside” the computer. To eliminate the interface would promote an immediate and intuitive relationship to the machine, saving much needless effort. “Intel research scientist Dean Pomerleau told Computerworld that users will soon tire of depending on a computer interface, and having to fish a device out of their pocket or bag to access it. He also predicted that users will tire of having to manipulate an interface with their fingers. Instead, they'll simply manipulate their various devices with their brains” (Gaudin, 2009).