Very true. From one vantage point, things look like this: 1970s: The Visionaries - showing us how the future (of desktop computing) can look like. 2023: pre-1

Very true. From one vantage point, things look like this: 1970s: The Visionaries - showing us how the future (of desktop computing) can look like. 2023: pre-1970s state stuff has become pervasive, runs faster and is cheaper, but not nearly at the level of sophistication that the 1970s had. (State of the art is still free clones of Unix, a 1960s OS.) So where is the course correction? And where are the 2023 ideas that as look far into the future from today as the J.C.R. Lickliders, D. Engelbarts, T. Nelson and A. Kays of the day? (Thankfully, in some areas, things look better - e.g. mobile phones, robotics, machine learning applications etc., so the point here is only valid about destop HCI progress.)