A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Doug Engelbart at his home, at the invitation of Mei Lin Fung.
We chatted for about an hour, covering everything from the changes he’s seen over his decades as a visionary and pioneer, to his current thoughts on Collective IQ.
We dove right in, and just before the tape started rolling he had just showed me a one-handed, chording keyboard that he’d invented in the 1960’s that he still uses today. The first story is classic…using the same concepts as the chording keyboard, it’s a tale of how he taught his daughters to communicate silently with each other using base2, which came in handy when they were taking tests in school or when their mom thought they were asleep. 🙂
