Archive of stories published by Croquet

Homepage

Open in app

All

2019

2020

Saad Sahawneh in Croquet

Dec 27, 2019

The Internet’s N² Problem.

Alan Kay had told me that to understand Croquet, one had to start by reading David P. Reed’s MIT thesis “Naming…

1 response

Saad Sahawneh in Croquet

Dec 21, 2019

Shhh…The Real Computer Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet.

It would soon be 30 years since Alan Kay and David A. Smith had a conversation about how frustrated they were with the state of computer operating systems, and then the Croquet Project was born. Alan had talked about how ideas in…

Saad Sahawneh in Croquet

Jan 23, 2020

Use Croquet to Build “Figma for X”.

“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they…

Saad Sahawneh in Croquet

Jan 14, 2020

Queue Brings Real-Time Collaboration to Video Replays, Powered by Croquet.

Masud Hossain and his…

Saad Sahawneh in Croquet

Jan 5, 2020

Croquet: A 30-Year Old Cosmic Dream of Augmented Reality, Collaboration, and 5G.

Although Doug Engelbart’s vision of collaboration was demoed in 1968 by showing two mouse pointers on a screen that were being controlled by two people in different locations, the…

Saad Sahawneh in Croquet

Jan 9, 2020

The Button on the Radio.

“The mouse was just a tiny piece of a much larger project, aimed at augmenting human intellect.” — Doug Engelbart

Perhaps if Medium was around in Doug Engelbart’s days, he might have written his own stories that weren’t mostly about the mouse, but about…

Saad Sahawneh in Croquet

Jan 9, 2020

Abandoning Pop Culture.

If you want to reinvent pop culture, you must first abandon it. It’s easier that way. There’s already too much happening in pop culture, but in the quietness away from it, there are undiscovered worlds within your brilliant ideas. Watch them.