Bootstrapping Organizations into the 21st Century: A Strategic Framework

Files should have structure, and objects should be independently addressable within a file, with zooming in and out and other on-the-fly custom views. Personal signature encryption and suitable privacy provisions should also be supported … Ultimately, the hyperdocument system will need to be an open hyperdocument system (OHS), allowing for an integrated ‘seamless’ multi-vendor architecture where distributed diverse knowledge workers can share hyperdocument files and share screens, regardless of each worker’s particular hardware/software configuration. This interoperability must extend across departments and across organizations to include customers, suppliers, and joint-venture partners.

Interview with Douglas Engelbart

The perception people have of the future, of what its potential is, of what there is to do about it etcetera, is the biggest single problem in mankind’s ability in the future to harness technology and really take advantage of it … The large parts of our world … are being taken for granted and they’re not being examined ever or being considered as candidates for change, for explicit planned change. And yet the rapidity with which really dramatic-scale changes are occurring in what the capabilities of technology are, are such that by the time that really gets integrated into the whole, our whole social human system, there’s a lot of adaptation to be made.

American Association for the Advancement of Science: Computers ‘Will be Made Virus-Proof’

Viruses and worms are likely to be problems of greater significance in the next few years, but they are unlikely to overwhelm us, and we are likely to get them under control eventually.

American Association for the Advancement of Science: Computers ‘Will be Made Virus-Proof’

We should keep computer viruses in perspective. Just as the killing of innocent hostages by terrorists has more psychological impact than the same number of deaths on the nation’s highways, someone with a disk trashed by a virus may be more irate than someone who loses eight hours’ work because of an electrical failure.