[ba-unrev-talk] Re: Cultural v. Technical Solutions
Great! (01)
I suspect that the "bending to fit" is a context sort of thing, like the
notion of a culturally-appropriate keypad in remote villages. (02)
Back to Doug Engelbart and the original question about why a secure future
for his vision has not emerged, I am aware of various initiatives along the
lines of software productivity, and others. One must still wonder why
those are not off the ground and running. (03)
Jack (04)
At 12:06 AM 10/8/2002 +0100, you wrote: (05)
> > Shall I infer that your point would be:
> > Doug Engelbart's vision of coupling masses of illogical humans to gobs of
> > technology doesn't have a prayer of achieving anything sufficiently useful
> > to be able to judge the effort worthwhile? (being somewhat akin to
> > Gerald's earlier comments).
>
>[pj] No, that's absolutely not what I'm saying. I'm saying the tech needs
>to be
>bent to fit more. I believe that's in line with Doug's thinking (??).
>
><massive snippage> (06)
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