May 202008
My work desk is relatively neat because I try not to accumulate a lot of hard copies of documents. I store ninety-nine percent of my files in electronic format and I use e-mail extensively (probably a little too extensively; I’ve been mildly admonished for keeping e-mails that were over five years old). This system generally works well for me, but I still have the nagging problem of manipulating assorted documents during meetings. It’s not always practical to have someone sitting beside me to turn pages and I’ve always been reluctant to ask colleagues to be my hands. I could ask for a notebook computer to bring to meetings, but my adaptive equipment isn’t easily portable which kind of defeats the purpose of having a computer.
I sometimes daydream about being able to pull up documents on an inlaid display of my eyeglasses using a subvocal speech interface. Yes, most of my daydreams are this boring.
