Alan Kay had told me that to understand Croquet, one had to start by reading David P. Reed’s MIT thesis “Naming…
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…
“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they…
The universe, in its ever-expanding state, is a walled garden. Things enter the universe as it expands, and things don’t…
Thinking can be practiced. Thinking can be improved. Thinking can be understood. It is the first step in augmenting our individual intelligence, it allows the expansion of our minds, and empowers us to invent solutions to humanity’s most difficult problems. When a number of augmented minds…
“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…
Today, we closed our first major investment and are incredibly excited to bring Live Collaboration to you. View the press release here, or view it on the Croquet website here, or read it below.
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…