Doug Engelbart’s original keyset working with an iPad
In a meeting today, Bill Fenwick articulated a key point that was also deliberated at Campus 2010 retreat in Trinidad, “Participation in society in the future requires computer literacy. Almost all aspects of your life will be limited if you cannot access a computer. This could cause an explosion in the gap between the able [...]
How can we best study and improve how human behavior and tool systems co-evlove to raise the collective capability.
“I could picture people sitting in front of big cathode-ray tube screens with the computer. We could make symbolic arrays to develop new information forms in order to portray for ourselves the thinking that we were doing. And other people could be sitting at similar complexes associated in the same computer center collaborating.” “I said, “Wow, tremendous possibilities! Okay, I’m [...]
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 [...]
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.
The celebration at the Tech Museum was a historic event. Friends, family and colleagues honored Doug Engelbart with music, dance, food and merriment.
The best thing we could possibly do is not think that somebody is going to tell you what “the answer” is but somebody that says, “Here is a process that will help facilitate optimally that evolution.”
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