Alan Kay
TCP/IP was needed to make consistent objects across the Internet. It has been done since, but not as a standard layer on tcp/ip.
Licklider funded the Internet and called it the intergalactic network to at least get a network that would reach every human being. It is a political system because there is no center. People will do things alien to us!
Sketchpad
Constraints and problem-solving functions are based on what the user tries to do. Masters and Instances. First system with objects and classes.
The system could be used to build bridges without knowing in advance about bridges.
McLuhan: most people experience the present in terms of the past
How to design smart ideas to
Compositing for User Interface
Pen Stroking
Texturing
Bitmap Filters
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