That's all true and well, and the Spritely website does explain what it's going to do, but it's in a lot of words and I think that this isn't easy for people to

That's all true and well, and the Spritely website does explain what it's going to do, but it's in a lot of words and I think that this isn't easy for people to absorb. I did put together a video which does a better job: https://conf.tube/videos/watch/18aa2f92-36cc-4424-9a4f-6f2de946fbd2 https://conf.tube/videos/watch/18aa2f92-36cc-4424-9a4f-6f2de... But I think part of the problem is that it's very hard to explain to people in words how something is going to work. In general people better understand from experiences. That's why Spritely is actually taking a demo-centric approach... people understand better from experiences than from being told. I wrote about this more here recently: https://dustycloud.org/blog/if-you-cant-tell-people-anything/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/if-you-cant-tell-people-anything... Which is a response to Chip Morningstar's article, "You Can't Tell People Anything": http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-anything/ http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an... ... which has a really interesting quote in it about how baffled people were about the idea of hyperlinks: > Years ago, before Lucasfilm, I worked for Project Xanadu (the original hypertext project, way before this newfangled World Wide Web thing). One of the things I did was travel around the country trying to evangelize the idea of hypertext. People loved it, but nobody got it. Nobody. We provided lots of explanation. We had pictures. We had scenarios, little stories that told what it would be like. People would ask astonishing questions, like “who’s going to pay to make all those links?” or “why would anyone want to put documents online?” Alas, many things really must be experienced to be understood. We didn’t have much of an experience to deliver to them though — after all, the whole point of all this evangelizing was to get people to give us money to pay for developing the software in the first place! But someone who’s spent even 10 minutes using the Web would never think to ask some of the questions we got asked. I think that the level of incredulity that we're seeing here is understandable then, in that sense... human beings are better equipped to understand something in retrospect than to think ahead and try to join you in envisioning it. Oh well... as more demos come out (we've already done a few, a couple are shown in the video but not all), maybe people will believe more and more. When it gets in peoples' hands, even more so.