Ideas and Structure

Introduction

Vannevar Bush’s Memex
Mother of All Demos
Analogous to PDM
Needing imagined systems before technology is available
Cute John Maeda quote
What actually was PDM
What am I going to write about

Context

Sutherland
- Sketchpad and computers as visual tools
McLuhan
- Dynabook name inspiration
Seymour Papert & Piaget
- Visit to school with LOGO
Bruner
- enactive, iconic and symbolic
- how each of the Dynabook’s elements controlled each of them
Modes
- ARC -> PARC migration
- overlapping windows
- menus
- modeless rampage

Legacy

Xerox Alto
- user illusion
Implications for ‘new media’, Manovich
Apple thieving
Paradigm of simplicity?