Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor, Not a Computer Engineer | Linux Today

Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor, Not a Computer Engineer

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Ken Starks
Jan 10, 2014

However, if one thing is coming out of this mobile technology industry, it might be the evolution of the old kludgy mouse and keyboard interface we use today. The first commercially successful typewriter blossomed on the market sometime in 1860s. Today, the main input interface we use is simply an evolution of the same keyboard and functions we started with almost 150 years ago. What we cannot do with a keyboard, we do with a mouse.

KS

Ken Starks

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