alan kay's piece on arpa, influences and history. long and interesting reference list.

For example, it is no exageration to say that ARPA/PARC had "visions rather than goals" and "funded people, not projects". The vision was "interactive computing as a complementary intellectual partner for people pervasively networked world-wide". By not trying to derive specific goals from this at the funding side, ARPA/PARC was able to fund rather different and sometimes opposing points of view.

have to read: waldrop, m. mitchell, the dream machine: j.c.r.licklider and the revolution that made computing personal, viking, 2001

nice playing thought ping pong again, brian ;)

it's reflection? i thought that's the problem of journalism; maybe of any profession to look beyond one's own nose. can you be more precise? what's needed: a reflective mood towards the machine, human; crunching power, interface; glueing, talking, walking together; what brings stars into the eyes or makes them cloud?, ...

too many interpretations possible for my taste, leading me to reflectometer, reflexology,reflux,... reforestation.

Some Characteristics of RTL/2 and their Relevance to Process Control

• Fachtagung über Programmiersprachen, Gesellschaft für Informatik, 1974