You're right, headline should've probably just had "Online Encyclopedia". Can't find anything on how Alan Kay envisioned authorship of the Intelligent Encyclop

You're right, headline should've probably just had "Online Encyclopedia". Can't find anything on how Alan Kay envisioned authorship of the Intelligent Encyclopedia, but it wouldn't surprise me if he looked at a democratic encyclopedia as Leonardo may have flight: lacking the exact design but having faith that it would work "eventually". In the late 1890s, Lord Kelvin said, I am afraid I am not in the flight for "aerial navigation". [...] I have not the smallest molecule of faith in [it] other than ballooning or of expectation of good results from any of the trials we hear of. [1] I wonder what computer scientists thought of a general purpose "all-you-can-edit" online encyclopedia in the late 1990s. The quote from Vannevar Bush in a sibling comment mentions a "profession of trail blazers" contributing content and links, which sounds more like Nupedia or Knol. As McCarthy with m-expressions, Jimbo found out Nupedia was superfluous. [1] Often inaccurately summarized as "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible"; http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson