What the last 50+ years of modern computing history tell us about future interfaces
summary
Survey of fifty years argues that interfaces evolve from linking ideas to run time systems: concrete inventions include the Memex concept to hypermedia, Engelbart’s mouse and NLS demo, and Christopher Alexander’s pattern thinking applied to software. Modern examples show tools and results: GitHub social coding makes distributed version control collaborative and effective, node nonblocking I/O treats latency as a feature and shortens execution/evaluation cycles, and work on immutable time series treats data as versioned representations that enable new queries.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46The Future
- 2:10The Memex
- 3:42Ted Nelson
- 5:07Vannevar Bush
- 7:15Christopher Alexander
- 9:41The Design of Everyday Things
- 16:29This is a fantastic generation
- 16:58The scary part
- 17:30Not a person
- 18:37Data relationships
- 21:18Nodejs
- 24:55Rich Hickey
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