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Somehow you connect basic human mental
kinesthetic capabilities and sensory capabilities together
in something that you doubt if we were designed for doing
that sort of thing or it fit into our evolutionary pattern,
but it was some technology that, when you mastered it,
gave you a real new level like that.
So what else could we think of like
that? Who would have thought of that? That's coupling
humans to another control mechanisms to make use of some
environment to give you a capability that you could never
have dreamed about before. So what are we looking for
downstream? In here, you know, when you really are working
with knowledge and start really working, that's the field
you have.
And I decided to follow this fancy
idea about starting to learn how to work interactively
– that we need a display. I made explicit strategic
decision to bypass the online typewriter and go directly
to display workstations. In spite of most other online
developers working with typewriters, I felt that the much
higher "augmentation potential" of displays warranted
early pursuit, and figured that cost would surely come
down in a few years. Keep in mind that CRT workstations
were very expensive then – they weren't a consumer
product by any means.
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