You Have Pigeons To Thank For Your Touch Screen Sounds Crazy? Watch This Video

Sep 18, 2017 by apost team

Whether it is a cell phone, tablet or even a laptop, most of us use a tiuch screen everyday and cannot imagine life without this amazing technology. It is such a normla part of our lives that we rarely stop to wonder how this technology was developed so when we came across this intersting bit of history - we had to share it! 

You may be surprised to hear this but the orgins of the touchscreen can actually be traced back to a project with pigeons in World War II! In the 1940s, the U.S. military was trying to find a way to drop bombs in enemy territory without having to sen dthier pilots too close to danger. 

Noted psychologist, B.F. Skinner was working with behaviotal conditioning with animals and came up with aninteresting theory. Watch this video to see hoe it turned out! 

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