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To: Mephisto who wrote (16108)5/3/1999 10:21:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
World of Technology Has Lost One of the Most Thoughtful in Its Ranks

In Silicon Valley, technological breakthroughs sometimes seem to arise spontaneously, a kind of magic. Actually, nearly all the most important developments start as someone's deep thoughts.

When Mark Weiser, chief technologist at Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Center, passed away last week, taken by cancer at age 46, the world of technology lost one of the most thoughtful in its ranks.

Weiser is considered the father of "ubiquitous computing." He coined the term in 1988, and though ubiquitous computing has yet to arrive, many leading technologists view it as an inevitable development that will change our world profoundly.

"Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality," Weiser wrote. "Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people."

latimes.com

I agree that MSFT will remain on the desktop for years to come. But the action is on the network.

When was the last time you used MS Word to write a letter? IBM or SUNW should buy Interleaf and give away the first fifty million copies of Ileaf 6. Seed the market.

Best of luck.
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