The future? I don't think so.
International Business Machine has recently release a brand new computer, the Xerox 8010 Star. With this release a new user peripheral has been introduced. Labeled a computer "mouse," it allows a user to move an icon on the computer screen dynamically and select objects with the two buttons on it.
This is not the way for the future. To use this mouse is a cumbersome exercise. First, one must remove their hands from their keyboard, then they must locate the mouse. From there they need to find the cursor on the screen, drag the mouse to where they need it and click the button. This is a much longer process than just using the arrow keys on the keyboard. Also, over time, the accuracy of the mouse decreases as dirt begins to build up. The keyboard is here to stay, this new mouse is just a failure from IBM's engineering department.
This is not the way for the future. To use this mouse is a cumbersome exercise. First, one must remove their hands from their keyboard, then they must locate the mouse. From there they need to find the cursor on the screen, drag the mouse to where they need it and click the button. This is a much longer process than just using the arrow keys on the keyboard. Also, over time, the accuracy of the mouse decreases as dirt begins to build up. The keyboard is here to stay, this new mouse is just a failure from IBM's engineering department.
This is to funny this picture. I dont even remember a mouse looking like this. To me when computer gadgets and computers looked difficult, I did not pay them any attention because I knew they were going to under many changes. The mouse went through several stages and I still dont care for mouse that often exspecially if they have cord. However, they did go wireless, less wires less aggrevation.
ReplyDelete~Stacey The Court of Hearts
What a crazy picture this is! The article section that complains how the mouse would be a waste of time to use is pretty funny. Ironically, we have used them all the way up to the present day! Back then, I can understand how this advancement to them would probably be more of a nuisance than anything else. It shows how, over the years, technology has made the computer mouse so easy to use that we almost don’t even think twice about it! The design of the mouse has not changed much from this picture, but they have been made in different colors and slightly different shapes. People then, probably had a hard time adapting to this new device. Over the many years it’s neat to see how society has really adapted to using a mouse with their computers.
ReplyDelete-Alisha Rickert
The interest that IBM lost in the mouse was gained by the likes of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs gained. IBM had little foresight at the time Bill Gates approached them for the rights to the mouse.
ReplyDeleteBill Gates, envisioned a time when a computer would be small enough and cheap enough for every household to own one. IBM thought Mr. Gates was out of his mind.
As it turns out, IBM has had to kick themselves for 20 some years as they were proved wrong and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs built empires on the use of the mouse and how much of society has come to use one.