> what they predicted From Bret Victor's "A few words on Doug Engelbart"[1]: > Almost any time you interpret the past as "the present, but cruder", you end up

> what they predicted From Bret Victor's "A few words on Doug Engelbart"[1]: > Almost any time you interpret the past as "the present, but cruder", you end up missing the point. [...] If you attempt to make sense of Engelbart's design by drawing correspondences to our present-day systems, you will miss the point, because our present-day systems do not embody Engelbart's intent. [...] If you truly want to understand NLS, you have to forget today. Forget everything you think you know about computers. Forget that you think you know what a computer is. Go back to 1962. And then read his intent.[2] 1. http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/ http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/ 2. http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html