When I look around me, I can't believe what I see It seems as if this country has lost its will to live The economy is lousy, we barely have an army But we can still stand proudly cuz Canada's really big We're the second largest country on this planet earth And if Russia keeps on shrinking then soon we'll be first (As long as we keep Quebec) The USA has tanks and Switzerland has banks They can keep them thanks, they just don't amount Cuz when you get down to it, you find out what the truth is It isn't what you do with it its the size that counts Most people will tell you that France is pretty large But you can put fourteen France's into this land of ours (It's take a lot of work, It'd take a whole lot of work) We're larger than Malaysia, almost as big as Asia We're bigger than Australia and it's a continent So big we seldom bother to go see one another Though we often go to other countries for vacations Our mountains are very pointy, our prairies are not The rest is kinda bumpy, but man do we have a lot (we've got a lot of land, we've got a whole lot of land) So stand up and be proud and sing out very loud We stand out from the crowd cuz Canada's really big
I suppose in order to be one of the "software people" (?) you either have to be identified with a company or big open-source project. You would think that coming up with pretty much all of current human-computer interaction would get Englebart a reference, but he never commercialized it, so no dice. Don't see a lot of PARC folks either. It looks like scholars, theorists, or visionaries don't make the cut, except for the most visible (popular) like Turing and Berners-Lee. Folks need to read more.
Not to mention windows (tiled), CSCW with video conference, hyperlink implementation (Vannevar Bush gave us the concept, ans later Ted Nelson advanced it), and probably most importantly an implementation that had as a goal the augmentation of human intelligence. Basically, all of our human-computer interaction can be seen in http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html . But evidently the list have some other criteria for success, not sure that tht might be.
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And the Arrogant Worms (see Saskatchewan Pirate song above) also have something to say about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxDDcTc64c
Arrogant Worms
Canada's Really Big
When I look around me, I can't believe what I see
It seems as if this country has lost its will to live
The economy is lousy, we barely have an army
But we can still stand proudly cuz Canada's really big
We're the second largest country on this planet earth
And if Russia keeps on shrinking then soon we'll be
first
(As long as we keep Quebec)
The USA has tanks and Switzerland has banks
They can keep them thanks, they just don't amount
Cuz when you get down to it, you find out what the truth
is
It isn't what you do with it its the size that counts
Most people will tell you that France is pretty large
But you can put fourteen France's into this land of ours
(It's take a lot of work, It'd take a whole lot of work)
We're larger than Malaysia, almost as big as Asia
We're bigger than Australia and it's a continent
So big we seldom bother to go see one another
Though we often go to other countries for vacations
Our mountains are very pointy, our prairies are not
The rest is kinda bumpy, but man do we have a lot
(we've got a lot of land, we've got a whole lot of land)
So stand up and be proud and sing out very loud
We stand out from the crowd cuz Canada's really big
I suppose in order to be one of the "software people" (?) you either have to be identified with a company or big open-source project. You would think that coming up with pretty much all of current human-computer interaction would get Englebart a reference, but he never commercialized it, so no dice. Don't see a lot of PARC folks either. It looks like scholars, theorists, or visionaries don't make the cut, except for the most visible (popular) like Turing and Berners-Lee. Folks need to read more.
Not to mention windows (tiled), CSCW with video conference, hyperlink implementation (Vannevar Bush gave us the concept, ans later Ted Nelson advanced it), and probably most importantly an implementation that had as a goal the augmentation of human intelligence. Basically, all of our human-computer interaction can be seen in http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html . But evidently the list have some other criteria for success, not sure that tht might be.