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"Computer was a bad name for it. It might just as well have been called an Oogabooga Box. That way, at least, we could get the fear out in the open and laugh at it." “用‘计算机’来称呼它实在不合适。还不如把它叫做‘奥加布加盒’呢。那样至少，我们还能把这种恐惧感公之于众，然后一笑了之。” Even in a crowd of precocious, eccentric loners, Ted seems to set himself apart from the rest. His fate is less certain than those who started augmentation research in the early 1960s or who created the homebrew computer movement in the mid 1970s. Alan Kay is closing in on the marketable version of his fantasy amplifier. Bob Taylor continues to catalyze the development of on-line intellectual communities. Evans & Sutherland is an extremely successful flight-simulation company, and Ivan Sutherland is a millionaire. 即便在那些早熟、古怪的独行者当中，泰德也显得与众不同。与那些在 20 世纪 60 年代初开始从事增强现实技术研究的人，或是在 70 年代中期推动家用电脑发展的人相比，泰德的命运则难以预料。艾伦·凯即将将自己的幻想中的放大器变为现实产品。鲍勃·泰勒则继续推动在线知识社区的发展。埃文斯与萨瑟兰公司是一家极其成功的飞行模拟软件公司，伊万·萨瑟兰则成了百万富翁。 But the idea people in universities and corporate laboratories, the resea

howard rheingold's | tools for thought Tools For Thought by Howard Rheingold April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is available from MIT Press including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr. ISBN: 9780262681155, 1985 ed, ISBN: 0262681153 The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as tools for intellectual work and social activity, was not an invention of the mainstream computer industry or orthodox computer science, nor even homebrew computerists; their work was rooted in

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