Giving a PC a robotic neck and throwing away the keyboard and mouse has produced a personal computer that is less needy of our full attention. The music and game-playing gadget, which is controlled only by gestures, went on show at the Lift conference in Geneva last week.
We all have different futures, and in William Gibson’s famous words, “future is not evenly distributed”. It is up to us to built it, and we certainly had with us some of the people who have a shot at influencing it with brilliant ideas.
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