Really good article on Internet software patents and how “the old timers” already thought of most of the things we do today.
They couldn’t build our modern world for us back in the 1960s because the hardware hadn’t caught up. If you’d given them 50 million quad-core 2 GHz Pentium with 4 GB of RAM and 30 Mbps Verizon FiOS connections to every home, they would have built you all of the services of the modern Internet and probably many that would have been better.
What would happen if you gave present-day computer programmers those same powerful hardware gifts? We did that experiment. Our modern day best-and-brightest built Microsoft Windows Vista (TM).
Just read through that before hitting your site (linked via John Gruber). Did you watch the video he linked to? It’s really awesome: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097&q=engelbart
Yes, that’s where I picked up the link :) I feel like a leech, but it was a good read and I used to belong to a message board (for Honda SOHC/4 motorcycles) run by one of Greenspun’s tcl scripts.