When is it going to get multi-touch?" Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, said, "It's something we're looking into.
You and I probably had a very similar conversation when we first showed the Nintendo DS: how is it going to work, why a touch screen, voice activation–I don't get it.
"If you build something [in government] and it's successful, it is going to touch an enormous amount of people," she said.
Amy Adler: Well, the biggest answer to that (or most significant right now) is that I was thinking about a film making term, which is "picture lock" -- when you finish editing a film and that's it; no one is going to touch it again.
"This way, when you're walking, it's going to touch parts of your legs, and look flattering, without you feeling all trussed up ready for Thanksgiving".
Even when you put a record out you don't just put a record out because of the record, you're thinking about who it's going to touch, what home it's going into.
"Because let me tell you something about it, it's going to touch people.
Every time someone brings them something, they want to know how it is going to touch the organization, and at end of the day how it is going to affect the students.
It already affects so many people but in the coming years it is going to touch the lives of an ever increasing number, as improvements in medical science allow us to keep people alive way beyond the point at which they might wish to live.
This field didn't exist ten years ago but if it's going to touch millions of lives it has to be affordable.
"People can be emotional and that happens in every business...this is a two year campaign and it's going to touch everyone.
