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Yes, it's a good essay, but here's the thing - it's no longer the future. We have Bush's ideas implemented. It's a vision of the present filtered through the blinkers of the past (even a genius can only be so prescient). Its interest is now purely historical & dead; it can no longer be any call for action or rethinking.

What's a vision of the future? Sad to say, Douglas Engelbart's 1962 "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html still is far beyond anything we have right now.

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