Laura Creighton wrote: >Have you read 'Fumbling the Future'? >http://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Computer/dp/1583482660 > > Another comment, I'm afraid.
No I have not read the book. But I did go so the Amazon site where, among the reviews for the book, is one by someone who was at Xerox at the time - working on the "creative" side, and who does not hide his bitterness at the fumbling and lost opportunities. It has, as a matter of fact, always seemed to me that Kay is someone fighting old battles. Probably, in some ways, this one. Very highs stakes. Higher than anything I have been involved in, and certainly not talking about financial stakes in particular .And I suspect that he was probably very much on the right side of those battles. It is also recounted that his academic career was impacted by a battle he chose to take-up regarding anti-Semitism on the campus he attended. I like a good battle myself. And my obsession with Kay is probably also some form of identification. Which doesn't change a thing about the substance of what I think the current effect of his fighting his old battle has become. The battleground itself has chnaged too drastically. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
