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My assumption on what I have heard so far is that.. Ive been amazed for a good while now by the on-line-system from Engelbart, Sketchpad by Sutherland, Smalltalk from Xerox PARC, Nelsons Xanadu and later Bret Victors demos. They where/are visually and philosophically strong, and seemingly inspired countless weaker systems that in turn somehow got picked up as the "industry standard".

Compromises where made, quick-fixes on quick-fixes made text interfaces just usable enough, sunk costs grew and habits formed. The visual programming I see in game-engines now are carrying those habits with it, because to build a language of nodes you first have to learn the ways of ASCII code.

And from what I understand, hardware is optimised for what ever software is popular enough to sell, so even if the software changed, the hardware would take longer. It takes an awesome goal to justify starting over on a truly visual interaction path when there is a system that almost, kinda works. And what-ifs are not in budget.

Oh... :(

Lets try with some quick cut and paste.

Paraphrased from wikipedia on the term fairy tale - is mainly used for stories with origins in European tradition, originally meaning a little story from a long time ago when the world was still magic. Tales were told or enacted dramatically, rather than written down, and handed down from generation to generation.

Wikipedia on Paris - The Parisii inhabited the Paris area from around the middle of the 3rd century BC. This meeting place of land and water trade routes gradually became an important trading centre. The Parisii traded with many river towns and minted their own coins for that purpose. During the 17th century, Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister of Louis XIII, was determined to make Paris the most beautiful city in Europe.

And from this post - Costly confusion, the triumphant vulgarity, the awful materialism that we are going to pass on to our descendants. ... Thousands of people were forced from their homes to make way for luxury buildings that the former tenants would not be able to afford. The overcrowding turned Paris into an “immense workshop of putrefaction, where misery, the plague, and disease work together in harmony,”. One way to successfully quell rebellion then was to to insulate the rich from the poor. The social ills that helped motivate the 1848 revolution did not disappear with the renovation of Paris and the subsequent restructuring of its social life. They may have even been made worse by the stratification of urban life,

Now I want to see an annotated print screen of his desktop. Spatially organizing the desktop reminds me of Eagle Mode, which kind of works but it gets weird first zooming into the filesystem to then zoom into the menus to find a command to run/open the file. After that it almost sounds like he touches on how the acme editor lays out "windows" in columns for his kill-app that "no one wants", amazing

Maybe it is a test to see when the AI generating the video breaks

How does copyright work on lost data?

I missed the c64 etc. but.. Any smartphone or laptop can do this and more, even within a browser. What might be the real question is what do we need to limit for new users to reach that state of boredom needed to explore and create, instead of getting stuck in The feed.

Perhaps disable the network or pointing device?

(Dedicated hardware per task, even for myself, is slowly winning me over)

I think one of the big arguments agains the standard Lego blocks is that you can not build triangles, which is kind of important when building structures.

What happens at 38:25? Joe: "This algebra you've made it's a Prolog program you just move a few brackets". And I went "oh my god". From that moment on I was not interested in Smalltalk anymore. Alan: Yeah, nether was I! But...

Squeak Smalltalk, the computer revolution is coming!