The Future & History of the User Interface

An anonymous reader writes "The Mac Observer is taking a look at UI development with lots of video links to some of the latest developments in user interfaces. It also has links to some of the most interesting historical footage of UI developments, here's one of the 1968 NLS demo. From the article: 'Sadly, a great many people in the computer field have a pathetic sense (or rather ignorance) of history. They are pompous and narcissistic enough to ignore the great contributions of past geniuses... It might be time to add a mandatory "History of Computers" class to the computer science curriculum so as to give new practitioners this much needed sense of history.'"

Comments

This differs from any other history how?

[Infonaut]

Unless they're harboring some religious, ethnic, or national grudge, people generally don't know much about history. That's 3x as true in the US as it is in most places.

'Sadly, a great many people in the computer field have a pathetic sense (or rather ignorance) of history. They are pompous and narcissistic enough to ignore the great contributions of past geniuses...

I'm confused. Are computer folks ignorant about history, or are they knowledgeable about history and chosing to ignore it?