Cognitive Overload

The Mouse Is Dead. AI Killed It.

The mouse was built for serial work — one cursor, one task, one window at a time. But AI agents have made our work parallel, and our input devices haven’t caught up. The real bottleneck isn’t software or shortcuts; it’s the human body’s inability to physically sense and switch between multiple asynchronous streams. We need a new kind of hardware — tactile, spatial, haptic — that lets our hands do what they’re built to do. The mouse is dead. Something new must replace it.