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My late-1970s wearable computer systems evolved from something I first designed to assist photographers into units that featured text, graphics, video, audio, even radar capability by the early 1980s. As you can imagine, these required me to carry quite a bit of gear. Nearly everybody around me thought I was totally loony to wear all that hardware strapped to my head and body. When I was out with it, lots of people crossed the street to avoid me—including some rather unsavory-looking types who probably didn’t want to be seen by someone wearing a camera and a bunch of radio antennas!

Why did I go to such extremes? Because I realized that the future of computing was as much about communications between people wearing computers as it was about performing colossal calculations. At the time, most engineers working with computers considered that a crazy notion. Only after I went to MIT for graduate school in the early 1990s did some of the people around me begin to see the merits of wearable computing.