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Carl W. Smith: Thanks on both tips, and I have not read "On Intelligence" (though I remember reading about it, and a lot about Hawkins, back in the Palm day). I'll look at that and Elements of Design. The Grok bit I have to ponder a bit more. So I can grok it.

Robert Swartz: I vividly remember thinking my Palm Pilot was an awesome thing. I was splitting work time between an office and home, and what it replaced for me was the unfortunate need to carry two rolodexes back and forth on the subway every week or so. So a digital address book was amazing.

Love all the other comments, particularly from you Palm Pilot vets.

And again: Thrilled, vmarks, to have downloaded that Graffiti Font!

Rob
]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/interface-runes/35108/#comments 2012-07-19T17:01:36-05:00 “Intelligence is defined by Prediction.” — Jeff Hawkins
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Rob,
So . . . Graffiti was developed Jeff Hawkins.
Have you read his book — On Intelligence?

. . . and if Grok is the new prediction engine for streaming data, then wouldn’t it be great to apply it to trading patterns (or data sources) like the “Boston Shuffle, Wild Thing” or the “Blue Zinger” that you bring up in your interview with Kevin Slavin?
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I remember having the 512k Pilot, the 1MB Palm Pilot, the Palm III, the Palm /// (different silkscreen!), the m105, m130, and several Handspring devices with springboard modules.

When I first began to use Palm, I had a spiral bound notebook that I practiced the alphabet in.]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/interface-runes/35108/#comments 2012-07-15T20:46:33-05:00
It was actually a brilliant, non-linear concept that solved the OCR limitations that doomed its predecesors, including the Newton: The realization that it was a lot easier to program us to learn a simplified and easily OCRd set of characters than to program a deivce to tease out meaning from our widely varied handwriting.

Rob, your best observation here is that we once felt (not that many years ago) that having a digitized calendar and address book with manual updates was a great leap forward.]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/interface-runes/35108/#comments 2012-07-13T13:56:36-05:00 Get Siri-ous

Rob, the iPad is only 2 ½ years old but it has a microphone on the keypad (iPad3) and people are falling in love.




But if you are interested in this little graphic time capsule of “Graffiti” check out Elements of Design Rowena Reed Kostellow and the Structure of Visual Relationships. Rowena has wonderful samples in the book (offline) of a graphic 3D language. I am looking at it with my 3D printing curriculum.

http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568983295
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Maybe it is somewhat too early to bury Graffiti as there is an Android that transfers these runes of the mobile stone age to the modern times:

http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/market/apps/app/com.access_company.graffiti_pro/Graffiti-Pro-for-Android]]> http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/interface-runes/35108/#comments 2012-07-11T13:00:49-05:00 http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/interface-runes/35108/#comments 2012-07-10T13:07:56-05:00 http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/interface-runes/35108/#comments 2012-07-09T16:03:56-05:00