TITLE: What It Must Feel Like to be Ivan Sutherland
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: March 17, 2017  9:27 AM
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In <EM>The Victorian Internet</EM>, Tom Standage, says this
about the unexpected challenge facing William Cooke and
Samuel Morse, the inventors of the telegraph:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
 [They] had done the impossible and constructed working
 telegraphs.  Surely the world would fall at their feet.
 Building the prototypes, however, turned out to be the
 easy part.  Convincing people of their significance was
 far more of a challenge.
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

That must be what it feels like to be
<A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland">
   Ivan Sutherland</A>.
Or Alan Kay, for that matter.
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