don´t miss the presence, is what probably suggests. vale, bueno, true. my problem here is just, my background knowledge still looks more like schweizer käse. i am still filling holes.

for me the overall question is still, what is going wrong in this field: on one side so many people get obsessed with their ideas, devoting their life to it, to realize sooner or later they can´t handle it anymore. drama starts. do bring it on a normal basis is harder than getting it started. good ideas are lost over work. but good ideas are always out there. it is a question of the team, if they find a way into real life.
principles are thrown over board. to look at the history of parc is also interesting in regard to this. there has been a punch of very smart people, sitting together, throwing principles of computing, management, recrutation and other rules over board, but still, at the end, there was next to all prototypes and real stuff one thing: exhaustion.
even those groups there, who had after all financial freedom, ended up in not being able to solve one basic problem: how to keep it going, how to keep the interest and ideas, when it goes into an area of consolidation. everyone, who things "oh, i am so clever" seems to hate that phase.
the solution so far that i have found are not promising: people are leaving the place, starting their own company and realize, the market out there is hard. now you have the choice again to say: "hard is fun" (as adele did) or you are dreaming of some days when you were young.

the other part to the story:

and from pigg it´s not far to . (never ever have i heard something about an european disappearing computer initiative???) oh well, back in historyland ( - can´t avoid it - again parc).
(hey robert: those were the days my friend :))

were the days ;-) but somehow i don't miss interviewing people ...