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To me Google Wave is "the mother of all demos" part 2.
by jackchristopher 17y ago
To me Google Wave is "the mother of all demos" part 2.
- ardit33 17y agonaw, not quite. Remember, when the "mother of all demos" was done, none of those things existed: mouse, word processor (that advanced), copy and paste and almost everything else. So foreign (for the time), and so visionary. Google Waves seem more of a mashup of current technologies (im/email/wiki/picture sharing) in a real time mode.
- jackchristopher 17y agoI meant it's a continuation (and extension) of Engelbart's vision. And I agree that almost nothing (in computing history) beat that demo. But I know Xerox PARC and Bell Labs had great demos that weren't recorded. And I'm sure when things like molecular assemblers, AGI or even the semantic web come out they'll be great demos. I see Waves as something with huge, even if the Google client failed. I like the ideal it's going after; the further decentralization and integration of the web.
- uuilly 17y agoI'd say the iPhone is the mother of all demos. But wave was quite cool.
- calambrac 17y agoHe's referring to something specific: http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html