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When I read this story the first thing that sprung to mind was Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu, described by Wired magazine as "the longest-running vaporware story
by jnord 12y ago
When I read this story the first thing that sprung to mind was Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu, described by Wired magazine as "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry".
As any entrepreneur will tell you, it is never a good idea to have long-running projects with few public deliverables. Projects like this need new blood, new ideas and continuous user validation in order to remain relevant.
- jfdixon 12y agoXanadu is an unfair comparison. Cyc is deployed in real world applications[1][2]. [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/ClevelandClinic/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/ClevelandClin... [2] http://videolectures.net/coinplanetdataschool2011_witbrock_cyc/ http://videolectures.net/coinplanetdataschool2011_witbrock_c...