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Read these rules for the Xanadu project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rules http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_r

• snogglethorpe 14y ago
  Yup, he was very widely cited (along with Vannevar Bush) back in the '80s when people were playing a lot with this sort of thing, but almost everything he actually tried to create seemed hopelessly baroque and over-engineered. "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...]