TechRadar's Quote of the Day: Engelbart Called the Digital Revolution Bigger Than Writing or Printing
TechRadar's quote of the day for 16 September 2026 featured computing pioneer Douglas Engelbart's claim that the digital revolution matters more than the invention of writing or printing, framed as an audacious statement about interactive computing.
According to TechRadar, Engelbart is a pioneer of interactive computing, the field the quotation addresses. The extract carried no date, venue or surrounding passage in the version published, and offered no account of how Engelbart developed the comparison between the digital revolution and the invention of writing or printing.
The item also carried a biography of its contributor. Keumars Afifi-Sabet is a freelance contributor to TechRadar and technology editor for Live Science. He has written for a range of publications including ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive, and has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years, previously holding the role of features editor at ITPro, where he oversaw commissioning and publishing of long-form work in areas including artificial intelligence, cyber security, cloud computing and digital transformation.
Afifi-Sabet is an NCTJ-qualified journalist who specialises in technology. He began his path into journalism at university, working in student media while studying for a degree in biomedical sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. After graduating he wrote for local and national publications as a freelancer, including The Independent, The Observer and Metro. While studying for his NCTJ certification his work was commended in the "Top Scoop" category at the 2017 NCTJ awards. He is registered as a foundational chartered manager with the Chartered Management Institute, having qualified as a Level 3 team leader with distinction in 2023.