The article is alltoo true. Engelbart's work was an enormous influence on my own. But when I gave credit to him in conference papers, and business proposals I

The article is alltoo true. Engelbart's work was an enormous influence on my own. But when I gave credit to him in conference papers, and business proposals I was pulled aside and told that it wasn't a good idea to tie yourself too closely to Engelbart because he was viewed as being too "out there". I always had the same reply. "Have you actually /read/ and of Englebart's papers?" In almost every case the answer was no. And when they did answer yes, it was always along the lines, "well all he was talking about was hypertext which is the same as the Web." Silicon Valley loves to talk about changing the world, but that's largely bullshit. Engelbart is far from the only genius that is being ignored today who will never get funded. You can make obscene amounts of money building another photo sharing or dating app, but try to work on an important problem and you'll starve to death.