Ivan Zhao wrote:
45 years after Engelbart's demo, we have a read-only web and Microsoft
Word 2011, a gulf between "users" and "programmers" that can't be
wider, and the scariest part is that most people have been
indoctrinated long enough to realize there could be alternatives.
Naturally, this is just history repeating itself (a la pre-Gutenberg
scribes, Victorian plumbers). But my question is, what can we learn
from these historical precedences, in order to to consciously to
design our escape path. A revolution? An evolution? An education?
HyperCard meets the web + P2P?
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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