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He talked a lot about input and displays. I wonder what he would think of today's tablets and touchscreen laptops.
by mwcampbell 11y ago
He talked a lot about input and displays. I wonder what he would think of today's tablets and touchscreen laptops.
- dang 11y agoI was surprised by how early the work on touchscreens he mentions was. Was it the 1950s, or am I misremembering? The one I want most is the brain-computer interface he talks about. It's disappointing that we haven't gotten further on that in 30 years.
- jcr 11y agoWhen the "touch screen" was invented depends on how you define the term. For "light pen" based system, early/mid 1950's. For capacitive systems, it's the mid/late 1960's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pen >"The first light pen was created around 1955 as part of the Whirlwind >project at MIT.[2][3]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen#History >"E.A. Johnson described his work on capacitive touchscreens in a short article published in 1965[6] and then more fully with photographs and diagrams in an article published in 1967.[7]"