Telescript is still something that intuitively seems like a good idea for a certain class of problem. In some ways, while it's a bit of a stretch, I would argue

Telescript is still something that intuitively seems like a good idea for a certain class of problem. In some ways, while it's a bit of a stretch, I would argue that Map/Reduce is a different encoding of this idea -- that the code should be mobile because the data isn't. Clearly Java was inspired by this concept and has been quite successful, but people aren't running applets for the most part anymore, so the one of the fundamental ideas motivating Java turned out to be irrelevant to its success. And yet on the other hand we have ReactNative and its equivalents sending JavaScript code off to the computers in our pockets. Even GMail and the original AJAX concepts are a re-creation of the Telescript concepts. I hope Andy realizes that this idea isn't wrong so much as it was bad timing (like the rest of what General Magic was doing). The world today has transposed the ideas, but they're still recognizable in very successful platforms with significant mindshare.