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Exclusive Interview with Steve Wozniak - Part 2
...Look at the iPhone. The full screen is the data, the content, the information. You touch and drag a picture sideways to see the next picture. You don't deal with left-right buttons that have a meaning. You deal with the data directly. It's more human, like sorting photos on a table.
A touch screen is the best example of hands-on activity. A tablet pen is more useful for things the hand is not good at. It serves the function that a paintbrush does. In the case of handwriting recognition, it serves the same function that a pen serves in real life. Or should I say pencil, since computers allow easy erasure?
The ModBook is progressing to the Synergy software version which has the best of 2 worlds - touch screen and tablet screen together.
P.L. : What do you think is the most interesting feature of the ModBook?
S.W. : Because tablets are so new to me, I'm blown away by the entire device. As a NON artist, I have fun with all of the new ways to use a computer that the ModBook provides. I can drag windows in a natural way with the tablet stylus. I enjoy handwriting much more than typing on a keyboard for most short things. This is me and goes back to my Newton MessagePad experience. I am going to have some personal fun creating scripts to turn handwritten commands into powerful and human functions, like finding info within an email that might refer, in human written ways, to calendar events, and figuring out enough to open the calendar application and insert the event.
P.L. : Do you think artwork can be influenced by the fact users can have fun using a device?
S.W. : I don't have any thoughts in this regard. I think of artwork as serious business. Myself, I like the 'fun' aspects but I probably won't be encouraged by that to become an artist.
S.W. : What's the latest innovation that's surprised you?
I.A. : There are too many to discuss here. Some people don't see or feel much of the innovation that's happening but I find so much of it, from materials to components to technologies to complete products that it's impossible for me to choose any one thing.
About Steve Wozniak
Co-Founder, Apple Computer, Engineer, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Educator. Steve Wozniak is the co-founder of Apple® Computer and designer of the pioneering Apple I and Apple II personal computers.
He began his career at Hewlett-Packard, designing and building the Apple I computer in his spare time. In 1976 he co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and designed the hardware and software for the commercially successful and still revered Apple II, helping to launch the personal computing industry.
Mr. Wozniak is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the highest honor for achievement in technology bestowed by the president of the United States, and the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment. In 2000 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. In recent years he has devoted himself to business and philanthropic ventures, as well as pursuing his passionate lifelong interest in education with a particular focus on educational technology.
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