I was just watching a Technology Review interview of Jeff Han, the “father” of the current multi-touch fad in computing (I don’t mean that in a bad way to him, its just that the guy’s video of multitouch interaction was followed within the next two years by other companies, including Apple and MS, launching their bids for multi-touch interactive devices with commercial blitzkriegs and grandiose announcements.

However, I soon had an idea on the multi-touch devices that will become much more sophisticated in the future.

If the laptops, mobile devices and desktops of the present are personal computers, then does the Microsoft Surface and other large multi-touch display devices that can handle interaction between more than one person at the same time count as a “multi-personal computer”?

The larger multi-touch devices that can handle input and output from more than one or two individuals concurrently should allow (I think) the opening of more than one instance of an installed application so that users of a large multitouch device can use the device to the fullest extent without getting in each other’s way.

I think that the administration of settings for large multitouch device users goes beyond just setting up a username and password for each user and his/her personal settings. It can also go into the graphic compartmentalization of spaces on a device allocated for each concurrent user.

I mean, if servers (which are, technically, multi-user) have to allocate logins and privileges for each user over the network, then why not the multi-personal multitouch computers?

But still, how does one administer a graphical multi-touch environment?