Related topic: who would you consider the Kay, Hillis, etc of today? I don't know that I would place Hillis on the same level as Kay, given the conditions of t

Related topic: who would you consider the Kay, Hillis, etc of today? I don't know that I would place Hillis on the same level as Kay, given the conditions of today. Right now, Apple is making a killing by selling machines whose user interface is a descendant of Kay's work, whose programming environment is a descendant of Kay's work, and whose form factor is a descendant of Kay's dynabook concept. Kay, in effect, blueprinted today yesterday. Hillis, on the other hand, made his impact in parallel computing. Whereas Kay's work dealt with today (yesterday), the stuff Hillis did yesterday deals with tomorrow. In the next decade or two, we might watch Hillis' work come to fruition as Kay's already has.