Sutherland’s original aim was to make computers accessible to new classes of user (artists and draughtsmen among others), while retaining the powers of abstract

Sutherland’s original aim was to make computers accessible to new classes of user (artists and draughtsmen among others), while retaining the powers of abstraction that are critical to programmers If that was his original aim, I think we can safely agree that he achieved this goal beyond his wildest expectations. His vision has become the goto paradigm for computing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, although the rise of mobile computing is changing the basic UI trajectory.