Animats, bless you for posting this every time Xanadu comes up. There's always plenty of discussion on the man himself and his peculiarities. Not enough looking

Animats, bless you for posting this every time Xanadu comes up. There's always plenty of discussion on the man himself and his peculiarities. Not enough looking at the context of the times this was conceived, the problems Xanadu was expected to resolve, or the perspective and philosophies of the developers that ended up baked into the very structure written into it.