Read these rules for the Xanadu project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rule...
and to me, at least, it becomes very clear why the WWW won the race.
and to me, at least, it becomes very clear why the WWW won the race.
"Simple" is a very important concept in the real world, and what he churned out was anything but.
[I recall his book "Computer Lib" as being almost completely unreadable too, and remember thinking that he must have doing drugs when he wrote it...]