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And who was perhaps the first person to describe this concept, back in 1979? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7RQK6LC3gdg/VGFsmQBX0RI/AAAAAAAAAWU/H2xNrkuvCbw/

• jacobolus 11y ago
  Well, there’s “right” in some abstract sense, and then there’s “right” as in most profitable. Building user-centered technologies is hard to make competitive with building corporate-centered technologies, especially once big money and bureaucracies have taken a field over from the dreamers and tinkerers and scientists. But yeah, Ted was right, as were Vannevar Bush and Doug Englebart before him, or Alan Kay after. Some more recent thingies: http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/ http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/ http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/2.html http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/2.html http://hapgood.us/2015/07/21/beyond-conversation/ http://hapgood.us/2015/07/21/beyond-conversation/