Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Disabled And Computing

Cover of "The Diving Bell and the Butterf...
Cover of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Controlling a Computer with Your Eyes
the French author of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly dictated his memoirs solely through eye-movements--one letter at a time, and with the help of an assistant
One of the things about computing has been the help it has provided to the disabled, or rather the physically challenged. At one level we are all physically challenged. Or we would not need computers, right? Computers compute when we can't. Like Steve Jobs said, the computer is like a bicycle for the mind. We are all disabled, we all need bicycles.
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