It might've been the above wired article, but some discussion of his work I vaguely remember was Nelson being bought into by I think autodesk, and Nelson basica

It might've been the above wired article, but some discussion of his work I vaguely remember was Nelson being bought into by I think autodesk, and Nelson basically managed the project poorly; the team would make headway in some direction over a year, then decide to do a fundamental redesign. Repeatedly. So a fully working product was never built, though some interesting components were