Add a few misc notes; try to fix accidental inline Mathjax

content/posts/2017-01-08-retrospect-foresight.org

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-/(Spawned from some idle thoughts around the summer of 2015.)/
+# See my org notes from 2015-07-25 for more ideas
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+/(Spawned from some idle thoughts around 2015-07-25.)/
 
 Why are old technological ideas that were "ahead of their time", but
 which lost out to other ideas, worth studying?
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   who was an endless source of these ideas.  Ted Nelson arguably is
   another.  Alan Turing is an early example widely regarded for his
   foresight.
+- Engelbart: http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
+  - 'The problem with saying that Engelbart "invented hypertext", or
+    "invented video conferencing", is that you are attempting to make
+    sense of the past using references to the present. "Hypertext" is
+    a word that has a particular meaning for us today. By saying that
+    Engelbart invented hypertext, you ascribe that meaning to
+    Engelbart's work. Almost any time you interpret the past as "the
+    present, but cruder", you end up missing the point. But in the
+    case of Engelbart, you miss the point in spectacular fashion.'
+  - "If you truly want to understand NLS, you have to forget
+    today. Forget everything you think you know about
+    computers. Forget that you think you know what a computer is. Go
+    back to 1962. And then [[http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html][read his intent]]."
 - [[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/][As We May Think (Vannevar Bush)]]
 - "Do you remember a time when..." only goes so far.
 - Buckminster Fuller