Preserving the past to preserve the future What a perfect day…Rob Stephenson (curator at The Tech Museum) and I met at the Ferry building in SF. While sitting by the dock of the Bay, Rob showed me the new adapter he built for chorded keyset Doug Engelbart gave me to play with. Now Engelbart’s keysets [...]
Can this poodle wearing a tinfoil hat get more fans than Glenn Beck? Facebook Fan Page This facebook campaign really caught my attention, (and the attention of another 197,773 people) but I wonder, how we harness this mass frustration against Glenn Beck and convert it into a social/political movement towards change? Or is knowing we [...]
New passports have an RFID chip with your personal information. Any hacker worth his/her salt can get this information from up to 30 feet away. In my spare time, I make these beautiful bags made from nanosilver to help protect you from having your identity stolen when you travel. Etsy: Your place to buy & [...]
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Don’t miss the Program for the Future event on March 3
The iPhone App, TipTapSpeech, just launched. It’s based on a Doug Engelbart invention. Available at iTunes store for $4.99. One of the things that Doug Engelbart invented in the ’60s (along with the mouse and just about everything else about personal computing) was the “chorded keyset.” His idea was you had the mouse in one [...]
After Engelbart’s 81st birthday, I asked Engelbart which one of his ideas he wanted to see implemented in the near future. He said he would like the notion of chorded texting to take off. So for the past few years I’ve been working (on a volunteer basis) with some amazing people: Evan Schaffer, Rob Stephenson, [...]
Blogger Suzanna Stinnett’s launched a user community space for our new iPhone TipTapSpeech on her blog GreatAdaptations. TipTapSpeech is a BETA implementation of Engelbart’s idea of typing by using “chords” or multiple keys simultaneously rather than typing each letter with one key. I hope you will join in the discussion.
Bruce Sterling interview http://blog.whoiswho.de/stories/46088/ Turns out that Bruce Sterling quote is only a metaphor, really it’s MySpace that is owned by Murdock. Fascinating. He equates the US to the Soviet Union in 1981-with a broken social contract… “Trapped between a collapsing previous order and an extremely unsettled…new order.” Snippets …Knowing that our societies have become [...]
Brilliant New York artist Mahmoud Hamadani breaks new ground in merging fine art with information design http://bit.ly/dcIw80 I am going to visit Mahmoud in his studio in Times Square on my way to Campus 2015 in Trinidad.
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