[self-interest] Self & Engelbart's vision

David Ungar ungar at mac.com
Wed Feb 6 00:48:19 UTC 2019


I would say that Engelgart influenced PARC and Smalltalk, and they influenced Self, via Smith’s Alternate Reality Kit.

> On Feb 5, 2019, at 2:52 PM, Bystroushaak bystrousak at kitakitsune.org [self-interest] <self-interest at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Was Self inspired by the Engelbart's demo[1] and his ideas to provide 
> conceptual framework for augmenting human intellect?
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> I've found out about old Tarraingím project[2], which was posted many 
> years ago into this conference by kjx and I've been really inspired by it.
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> Sometimes, I feel like there are some traces of his ideas in Self, but 
> maybe I am imagining things and it is only natural, that things converge 
> to the same point if you have sufficiently permissible system. For 
> example, Morphic seems like ideal framework to implement many of his 
> ideas about hypertext and linking of information.
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> References;
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> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demo
> [2] 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20010813120828/http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~kjx/tgim.html
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> Best wishes,
> Bystroushaak
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