Why the Mouse Blocks Us From Being Superhuman

After all, according to Amber Case—noted cyborg anthropologist and founder of location-based mobile platform Geoloqi—it’s keeping you from being superhuman.

During her keynote at South by Southwest, Case, who studies the relationship between humans and technology, said that the inventor of the mouse, Douglas Engelbart, never meant for it to be lasting technology. Even though it’s now familiar, she said, it’s "persistent architecture" that is “very dangerous because it blocks new innovation.”

Instead of using old metaphors to describe new technology and relying on dated inventions, she said, we should look to interfaces that make us feel superhuman.