Dan Gillmor on Ray Ozzie’s talk at the Tech Awards:

One of the people he worked with rarely came into the office, but communicated via the era’s equivalent of instant messaging. The colleague’s insights were brilliant but he typed incredibly slowly, Ozzie recalled.

Then they met, and the colleague was a quadraplegic who typed by holding a stick in his teeth and punching the keys one by one. Ozzie realized several things that day. First, technology was removing physical barriers in a more profound way than he’d understood. Second, he undoubtedly would have pre-judged his colleague (who recently died) had he seen him first in his wheelchair.

Source: Silicon Valley Tech Awards | Bayosphere