I actually think the thing that stymies Xanadu is the humble clipboard
copy and paste capability. (01)
Just my 0.02 neuron firings. (02)
Eugene Eric Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:03:56PM -0500, Aleksander Slominski wrote:
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>>permalinks, backlinks, transclusions in wikis, distributed
>>authentication with OpenID, collaborative bookmarking/filtering ... - it
>>seems that Xanadu is *now* about to become reality because ... we have
>>fast enough hardware?
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>
> I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but the thing I latched onto was:
>
> Trouble is, they were heavy techies who wanted to get things right,
> and did not have the "you must ship something" imperative that the
> old hacking types did. They designed, and designed and designed and
> had a great trouble getting any-some crummy thing to ship.
>
> Even if the hardware were faster, I'll bet that these folks would have
> run into the same trouble: ignoring existing design constraints to
> build "something better."
>
> I also think that Xanadu is far from reality. The two challenges I
> identified in my Manifesto two years ago -- usability (or in a broader
> sense, making all this stuff relevant to the average schmoe) and
> interoperability -- are still big problems today and will continue to
> be so in the foreseeable future. That said, we're definitely making
> progress.
>
> Thanks for forwarding, Aleksander. Good food for thought.
>
> -Eugene
> (03)
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