We herald the PC revolution, but we should remember that it made us forget to share.
From Ross Mayfield, "Doug Engelbart, Rebooted."
This is something I've been thinking about after reading What the Dormouse Said: that the deep irony of the personal computer revolution was that it started out as a reinterpretation of time-sharing, and progressively was whittled down from a vision in which people would have computers that talked to each other, to computers that would just talk to their users.
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There's certainly an element of truth to this that should not be overlooked.
But/and the sharing that we experienced in the mainframe era was not a sharing among peers. It was sharing enforced from the top down.
The PC was truly about empowerment. It offers the possibility of sharing from choice, not by mandate. And that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
-bb
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Posted by: Bill Bruck | June 13, 2005 at 01:22 PM