This is the most popular lecture, originally given at Caltech, and subsequently given at universities all over the U.S.
Necessity is the mother of invention, indeed. Check out what Henry Evans is up to. His necessity is driving the inventions of some pretty nifty robots.
I did a Q&A recently in the Mercury News with Henry Evans, a Stanford MBA and former chief financial officer at a Silicon Valley software startup who in 2002 suffered a debilitating stroke-like event that left him mute and quadriplegic.
After a paralyzing stroke, Henry Evans went from feeling suicidal to full of optimism with help from his caregiver wife, Jane, and from power of technology to help him live a better life.
Henry Evans’ kids in the back seat noticed it first. Their father, a Stanford MBA and the chief financial officer at a Silicon Valley software startup, was slurring his words as he drove the children to school along Page Mill Road.
Henry Evans and his wife Jane live high up in the Los Altos foothills. To get there you have to drive up twisting roads with steep switchback turns. On a Thursday morning 12 years ago Henry drove up these same roads after dropping his children off at school.
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