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The guy on the cover of Inventing the Future: https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future is Jeffrey Smith,
by AlbertCory 4y ago
The guy on the cover of Inventing the Future:
https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future
is Jeffrey Smith, the son of Dave Smith, the inventor of icons and one of the designers of the GUI. He's playing MazeWar on a real, working Alto (I have the raw photo in the book). There's a guy in the Seattle area who has two of them in his basement.
The family story is that Dave's wife was pregnant and overdue with Jeffrey, and they dropped in on PARC and looked at MazeWar. The little eyeball gave her such a shock that she went into labor. So Jeffrey was eager to reenact his origin story.