[cctalk] Re: Don Lancaster has passed away at 83

Sad to hear about Don Lancaster. Things like this is what motivated me to make the "domesticating the computer" video, which briefly mentions the TV Typewriter - to honor these "living legends". I wish I could have fit in more about Don and also Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib. And speaking of Ted, I wish I could grasp/understand Project Xanadu better. My only explanation is that our typical/classical approach to "file management" has borrowed all the concepts of the physical world -- a desktop, a cabinet with drawers, containing folders and files. But in cyberspace there was no real reason to follow that model, and we could have had a better approach to linking information (in some more bi-directional fashion). I don't know if that comes close to Xanadu's ideals, but that's my gist understanding. Our spoken languages I think sometimes make it difficult to convey novel ideas sometimes. -SL