Way back in the 90′s, when I worked for Geoworks, we worked with Jeff Hawkins whose team was perfecting Graffiti, the handwriting recognition software used on the Casio Zoomer and later PDAs from Palm & Handspring, companies that Jeff formed.

Jeff put on a version of this talk at lunch one day and I’ve been fascinated with the idea for a long time. He’s a scientist of a different caliber. Listening to him is more like listening to a car mechanic talk enthusiastically about your car rather than like a typical scientist, i.e. obtuse and boring.

What does this have to do with photography? Nothing directly, but everything in another sense.

Jeff Hawkins: Brain Science is about to fundamentally change computing