Bill Moggridge? Never met personally. I’m used to laptop though…

Like billion of us, I never met Bill Moggridge.  Like billion of us, I might have read this name somewhere once, and forgot what he did or achieved…Bill Moggridge is the inventor of the First clamshell-style Laptop.

Since 1981, laptops have been heating up our balls and weakening the power of our sperms. Those microscopic little tails with a tiny head, with the sole purpose of heading toward a target, and never making it, like human being. Who is emulating whom: the sperm or the human?

And Bill Moggridge passed away (1943-2012). Lived less than 70 years, with all the technology to extending human life…

Jamie Condliffe posted on Gizmodo under “Bill Moggridge, Inventor of the First Laptop, Has Died”:

Bill Moggridge, a British designer who created the very first clamshell-style laptop, has died age 69. The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has announced that Moggridge, its director, died on Saturday from cancer.

Moggridge is famous for designing the Grid Compass computer in 1982. In particular, he was responsible for pushing for a computer design which included a flat-panel screen that folded down onto the device’s own keyboard, along with compact circuitry to keep it portable.

The clamshell design, matte black finish and tight angles, and clunky are still enough to get us “all hot and bothered“. Its impact was celebrated in 2010 when it won the Prince Philip Designers Prize—the oldest design award in the UK.

The device wasn’t just critically acclaimed, though. Despite its lack of integrated hard disk or floppy drive, the magnesium-cased computer was quickly adopted by NASA and the US military. It even made its way into space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985.

Thirty years later, and laptop computers still use the same basic clamshell design originally proposed by Moggridge. That alone is testimony of his design genius—and a life worth celebrating.

Image by Mayo Nissen under Creative Commons license

Bill was on a war path: He wanted design to be taught early on in school https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/is-the-goal-of-a-brand-to-changing-kids-worldview/