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I attended a Hypertext conference ~14 years ago, where he was a keynote speaker. Very friendly and soft spoken man. From the his keynote, I got the distinct imp
by bouvin 9y ago
I attended a Hypertext conference ~14 years ago, where he was a keynote speaker. Very friendly and soft spoken man. From the his keynote, I got the distinct impression that he was disappointed and a little saddened that we had not progressed further than we have. His vision of augmenting the human intellect through the use of computers was a bold and beautiful one, but instead we are barraged by click-bait, fake news, trolls, and social networking sites carefully engineered to keep us hooked.
- mncharity 9y agoI had a similar experience, another decade and a half back: I attended a Hypertext conference ~30 years ago, where he was doing demos. [...] From his comments, I got the distinct impression that he was disappointed and a little saddened that we had not progressed further than we have. :/ Reminds me of a retiring librarian, who went into aero/astro circa 1960, because they wanted to be part of humanity's exciting push out into the solar system... then watched their field stagnate for their entire professional career, and retired wishing they had done something else with their life. Hopefully AR/VR will shake up the collaborative tech space. It would be really sad to still be stuck around here for another decade or three.