article_snippet: (WIRED)Screens are rectangles.
article_snippet: It's a challenge to the rectangular status quo and everything It represents.
article_snippet: Display technologies have a long and rectangular history.
article_snippet: In each case, the rectangle's prominence can be attributed in large part to practicality.
article_snippet: Whether you're talking about film or glass or stone, rectangles are easy to make.
article_snippet: As frames for shaping the world, however, different types of rectangles can produce vastly different effects.
article_snippet: The simple act of turning a rectangle on The simple act of turning a rectangle on its side side gave us entirely new ways to think about space.
article_snippet: Rectangles are still subtly dictating our behavior today.
article_snippet: And if just turning a rectangle on just turning a rectangle on its side side can make such a big difference, imagine all the interesting things that might happen if you left the rectangle behind altogether.
article_snippet: Throwing out centuries of rectangular thinking and starting from scratch ain't easy.
article_snippet: Rectangles are beautiful and functional.
article_snippet: Maybe thinking about circles could help us make us rectangles better.
article_snippet: Rectangles will endure.