🍹Early to RISA 🧉Anon is smarter than a genius
TehdastehdasDestroyed computer-aided collaboration.
www.quora.com/…/Harri-K-Hiltunen
www.quora.com/…/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Who invented the modern computer look and feel?
Harri K. Hiltunen's answer: What they wanted, and how it went: The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration 1. Vannevar Bush invented the Memex crowd thinking desktop environment with redundancy-merging hypertext wiki 1939–1945. He had designed analog computers and founded the Manhatta...
romp_2_doorSad that an effort post is hosted on Quora
I avoid that site like the plague
It’s kind of an effort post. It’s also just a “imagine if this other concept took off, because it didn’t happen I can imagine an alternative history where it did take off” except the post doesn’t exactly imagine the outcome, just seems to say "like we should have done this thing in the 60s and we didn’t and look how bad capitalism is at making good things happen which is true but not an argument actually for anything.
With crowd thinking, we can avoid semi-accidentally killing all life in this star system with our ever more dangerous technology.
- Memex enables building a consensus about reality, ascending us from arguing about knowledge to building knowledge, preventing the dangerous propaganda shown.
- NLS solves problems faster, reducing damage caused by stupidity and perverse incentives.
- Dynabook makes humanity crowd-wise, making life better, surviving future better.
- Dynamicland is the best user interface for knowledge in crowd thinking.
- Xanadu web transforms economy by rewarding real value making according to evidence-based logical consensus, removing perverse incentives, preventing future problems like the ones shown.
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But we choose to risk extinction and keep paying for this horror show instead.
Quora became good in its first years until the other co-founder was fired around 2012 (Coincidence? Who were the visionaries?). Quora stagnated until 2018 when the remaining (visionless) co-founder started enshittifying it.