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Hilarious. The poor interviewer just can't comprehend at all what a computer could be used for. Also, Ted Nelson was pretty good at predicting that a computer w
by BenjiWiebe 8y ago
Hilarious. The poor interviewer just can't comprehend at all what a computer could be used for. Also, Ted Nelson was pretty good at predicting that a computer would be used as a writing medium, a filling cabinet, a musical instrument, a few more things I don't remember specifically. As I was listening I was just silently agreeing that yep, we have that, and that, and that already.
- hobls 8y agoEven hit on what we could now call “smart home” devices. He managed to come up with a lot of examples to try to illustrate to the host what computers would be used for!
- hindsightbias 8y agoI'd wonder if HN readers would have gotten it in the context of 1979. It took nearly three years for someone to wonder what would happen if you connected something like Hypercard to a network. And it wasn't Bill Atkinson.