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Jeff Raskin, Larry Tesler and Alan Kay solved accessibility. This is the same move, one level down

The people who made computing available to ordinary humans solved the last great accessibility problem. This is the same move, one level down — and four of them are already in this record.

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Jeff Raskin started the Macintosh project and spent the rest of his life arguing the interface it shipped with was wrong. Hare hired him to build the alternative, paid a great deal, and got paper mockups.
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Each stop is a page in the graph. The order is an argument — but every one of them is also a door into the rest of it, so you can leave the path wherever it stops being useful.

01Jeff Raskin started the Macintosh, then spent his life saying it was wrongStarted and named the Macintosh. Hired at Evolve Software to build a document-and-message flow model instead of a desktop. It was decades early and it never shipped.→02Larry Tesler invented cut-and-paste — and lived on the same communeCut, copy, paste; modeless editing; Smalltalk and Lisa. Met Hare at a PC Forum lunch table — and turned out to have lived on the same commune in southern Oregon.→03Alan Kay, through Disney ImagineeringKnown through Eric Haseltine, who ran R&D at Disney Imagineering where Kay was a Fellow. The Dynabook argument and the coordination-layer argument are the same argument about who computing is for.→04Laurene Powell Jobs: two red cars on the Oval, the Culture Club, the roach coach — and everything she is a link away fromA Stanford GSB contemporary. Recorded because Hare's account is that he treated her as a peer focused on ideas rather than as proximity to fame.→05I named the missing layer at Microsoft in 1991. Thirty-five years later it is still missingThe layer Hare named at Microsoft in 1991 and has been building since. The interface made the machine usable by a person; this makes the economy usable by one.→
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The point

The interface revolution removed the requirement that you be a specialist to use a computer. This removes the requirement that you own capital to hold a position in what you help create. Same shape, different level — and Raskin's own unattributed work is the clearest possible illustration of the problem it solves.

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