This is an excellent point, and I also think that Victor's interpretation of Engelbart's priorities is really interesting: what if we made computer tools powerf

This is an excellent point, and I also think that Victor's interpretation of Engelbart's priorities is really interesting: what if we made computer tools powerful enough to enable high-bandwidth creative cooperation? Would that open up new areas of hyper-productive human activity that we've only sporadically seen up to now, when small groups of like-minded people happen to be put into a facilitating environment at the same time? What if that were the norm, because you could find such people -- right for you -- anywhere in the world, and work with them all your life, not just until this project funding ran out, or someone graduated, or got a new job, or whatever. That's what I think Bret Victor is aiming to find out, and that's why I think a lot of people are really excited by what he's saying.