Thirty two years ago today, Palm Computing announced the release of Graffiti, their gesture-based handwriting technology for #NewtonOS, General Magic #MagicCap, GeoWorks GEOS, Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing, Microsoft Winpad, and PenRight! devices.
https://www.grot.com/zoomer/zoomer-list/zoomer-list-3Q1994/0048.html
@foone I tried https://marginalia-search.com/ recently and it's different. The result aren't as good as pre-Prabhakar google search but they are truly refreshing
"When the Doctor loses control of the Tardis, he finds himself transported to #Scarfolk, a town forever timed-locked in the 1970s. There he faces dangerous foes including a telekinetic child-owl called Roy; an overhead projector possessed by a demon, and a group of tutting pensioners"
Doctorow: "In automation theory… a centaur is a person who is assisted by a machine. … Riding a bicycle or driving a car makes you a centaur; so does using the mute button on your TV remote when an ad comes on. Wearing a hearing aid makes you a centaur, and so does using a calculator to multiply large numbers."
We had a slightly different word for all of that when I was in school: cyborg.
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