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The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration (www.quora.com)

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Visionaries:
Vannevar Bush
Douglas Engelbart
Alan Kay
Ted Nelson
Bret Victor

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Many related terms seem to have drifted in meaning, so I had to come up with something descriptive and literal. I'm a fan of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectification_of_names .

It seems by "digital" Google AI means "computerised".

It's amazing Bush couldn't apply Turing's universality and connect servo feedback knobs (digital-analog-digital converters) to the ugly digital computers to make a tolerable user interface. Could be fun to program by hand motions instead of typing, if that branch had progressed for all those decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

to make a tolerable user interface. Could be fun to program by hand motions instead of typing

Like "American Sign Language" instead of applying a Morse-code paddle or a keyboard?

Could be fun

So far my impression is that is what was going on, entertainment and playing around. Analog oscilloscopes were some of the earliest interactive video game machines. "the game "Tennis for Two" developed by William Higinbotham in 1958. This game used an analog computer connected to an oscilloscope screen to display the game." - https://aliant.tech/en/news/the-first-video-game