Intertwingled: Afternoon Session #2 04/24/2014
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Doug: Collective IQ: because we need a way to operate in an increasingly complex world
.. “What We Might Yet Be: The Importance of Ted’s Vision”
– Belinda Barnet (media historian)Hypertext was a workstation-bases version hypertext. No one was interested in building a world-wide hypertext system.
It was only with the web that people saw that the real interesting things happen when the links cross organizational boundaries and continents (47 min)
Steve Wozniak (53 min)
The inventors of the transistor (William Shockley) are not that well known except in the right community. He did his work long before its effect became public
We get to habits and we don’t want to give them up when they become bad.
I first met Ted at Oxford.. he had a very important part of my life and my background in the Homebrew Computer Club
They had a humanistic viewpoint. The bible was Computer Lib. The Standford Sociology professors were influence by Ted.
The social revolution was more important to me. (59 min)
We will be masters of our own destiny. We won’t have it forced upon us (1 hr 01 min)
I look at Ted’s ideas .. where did they come from (reminds him of how he came up with the idea of adding color monitor)
Hypercard was the finest program.
Ted has a very important part in my upbringing with the Home Brew computer club
Ted talked about all the human aspect. Computer lib was my bible. (57 min)
Human vs Technology: Jeff Raskin was important in advocating that systems be made simple
A computer can solve a problem after a human tells it the method
Young people look at Ted as like Bob Dylan (1 h 12 min)
I have a feeling that this is going to be going on long after Ted is gone (1 hr 13)
He had it so right, right from the beginning.