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not sure if there's a book, but what I can see all this while, PARC produce a lot of awesome things that never reach their full potential, even now
by unexistance 13y ago
not sure if there's a book, but what I can see all this while, PARC produce a lot of awesome things that never reach their full potential, even now
- rjknight 13y agoIf there's anyone out there with enough knowledge of this stuff, I'd happily fund a Kickstarter project to get a book written.
- adamnemecek 13y agoSamesies.
- tablatom 13y agoIt is so important that something like this happens. The mental image of all the knowledge workers of the world riding tricycles because a real bike is "too difficult", is absolutely perfect.
- gregw134 13y agoWhat about links? Does anyone have links to similar material of high quality? Here's the original As We May Think : http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...
- leoc 13y agoI've linked Engelbart's site http://www.dougengelbart.org/ http://www.dougengelbart.org/ is here, the Sketchpad thesis http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf is here. There's lots more stuff if you search the academic literature carefully.
- morphle 13y agoI have enough knowledge of this material to write two books on this subject. I'd love to write it, I maybe have three chapters written already. With some effort we could even include some demo's of these systems (see my hn profile for my email).
- arethuza 13y ago"Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" is pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/dp/0887309895 http://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer/...