Revisiting Geddes'

Outlook Tower

Mike Amundsen

API Academy, CA Technologies

@mamund

The Information Age, 100 years on.

1890s – 1940s

The first information age…

Camera Obscura

The Mondotheque

“I had read maybe 150

books by the time I hit

1st grade. And I already

knew that the teachers

were lying to me.”

- Alan Kay

“The best way to predict

the future is to invent it.”

- Alan Kay

Collective Intelligence

“I decided that I would

focus my career on making

the world a better place for

humankind. ”

- Douglas Engelbart

• Windowing

• Hypertext

• Graphics

• Command input

• Video conferencing

• Computer mouse

• Word processing

• Dynamic file linking

• Revision control

• Real-time collaborative editing

Machine Dreams

• Hypertext

• Hypermedia

• Hyperdata

• Transclusion

• Intertwingled

“The purpose of

computers is

freedom.”

- Ted Nelson

“For Doug that

great demo was

just the beginning.”

- Ted Nelson

World City

Inter-Galactic Network

The Inlook Room

Revisiting Geddes'

Outlook Tower

Mike Amundsen

API Academy, CA Technologies

@mamund

The Information Age, 100 years on.

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