I was going to quip that "idea guys" can predict things in a useless way when having no idea how to make them a reality...but Licklider went on to have such imp

I was going to quip that "idea guys" can predict things in a useless way when having no idea how to make them a reality...but Licklider went on to have such impact on our field. It's mindblowing he was central to the creation of Arpanet and multics and so many other critical foundational bricks of today's computing.