Archy - A radical look at the HCI

Has anyone seen this? This a ZUI 'Zoom-User Interface'.

http://rchi.raskincenter.org/

Wikipedia entry provides a quick overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy

This seems too radical, although coming from Jef Raskin, part of original Macintosh team and human-computer interface expert, this looks promising.

Read below for understanding why Jef Raskin pushed for this:

http://jef.raskincenter.org/humane_interface/summary_of_thi.html