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Drilling down to more detail on a computer screen, or moving out to see the context, is basic. But it's hardly simple and, after 20 years, innovations are still occurring.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 12
            December 2012
            102 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2380656
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