Reconnecting with our futures past

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Survey of century-old technical bets links concrete artifacts to today: Otlet, Vannevar Bush’s memex film-strip model, Engelbart’s mouse and hyperlinked editing, Nelson’s Xanadu idea (a working version appears only recently), and Wendy Hall’s microcosm — a fully working hypertext pre-Web that fades. Early computing is anchored by the ENIAC six women programmers and Grace Hopper’s compilers; Xerox PARC’s Smalltalk and Alto point to the Dynabook. Claim: many grand visions work technically but fail socially; APIs and languages remain brittle without domain-specific languages.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:55Welcome
3. 2:57Time Travel
4. 5:54Networks
5. 11:34Machines
6. 15:42Information Systems
7. 18:17Visions
8. 21:16Alternate timelines
9. 23:53Conclusion

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