29 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Douglas Engelbart's Idea of Small Changes
I'm reminded of Douglas Engelbart's classic paper "Augmenting Human itellect,"2 on his belief in the power of computers. He wrote this in 1962, way before the PC, and argued that it's better to improve and facilitate the tiny things we do every day than it is to attempt to replace entire human jobs with monolithic machines. A novel-writing machine, if one were invented, just automates the process of writing novels, and it's limited to novels. But making a small improvement to a pencil, for ex... 1 
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notesMake a change to novel-writing and you've affected a small, specific domain, but improve the pencil, and you've impacted a wide range of domains.
09 FEB 2011 by ideonexus
1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial
TODO: Make this Link an Embedded Video 1 
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notesAn old Macintosh commercial, where Apple is the revolution against the conformity of PC's at the time.
