If we then examine how a computer desktop behaves, we’ll see some differences. One big one is that the area provided by the computer monitor is much smaller than that of a desk. What this means is that we can’t spread out all our documents over it without overlapping — we have to put them one over the other because there just isn’t enough space. This is even more problematic considering the computer gives not only a greater access to all our documents, but also an easier way to access them, leading to a need for virtual desktop real estate.