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-- Alan Kay, Inventing the Future, in: Winston/Prendergast (eds.): The AI Business - The Commercial Uses of Artificial Intelligence, MIT Press, 1984, p. 103-112
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. -- Alan Kay, "Computer Software", in Scientific American, September 1984
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.