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z2003-03-02- Nelson Engelbart Smackdown
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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Apr 12, 2008 6:19 am |
Mark Bernstein notes old tensions between the Ted Nelson/Intertwingular Ity and Douglas Engelbart/Out Lining camps. As it turned out, XanaDu wasn't utopian; one year we woke up and, there (more or less) it was. Over the course of the 90's, moreover, the pendulum swung against formality. Outliners disappeared into presentation systems, and then Micro Soft killed the software category by giving away [Power Point] and outliners were nearly forgotten... Just at the moment when Engelbart falls out of these histories, as it happens, the pendulum is swinging back toward Engelbart-style systems. Tinder Box and Radio Userland, for example, are each strongly influenced by Engelbart. Tinderbox, with its semi-formal attribute structure and template transclusion, echoes Aquanet and [SEPIA], and its rhetoric sometimes recalls NLS/Augment. Radio, like Augment, is all about outlines - and OPML may the first outliner since Augment to support outlines that cross (Transclus Ion) machines and File System-s. (GoPher did this too; it might be interesting to look at Gopher again....)
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog