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zamadatix on Dec 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Doug Engelbart’s 1968 demo

Who's to say there aren't just as many such people know but we still have trouble recognizing them until well after the fact.

bmitc on Dec 9, 2023 [–]

My point was more that these people wrote about things that predicted where we were headed but no one listened to them then, and no one listens to them now.

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