michael_nielsen

Satoshi stands out as different, being much more focused on co-ordination problems.

Another striking difference: all the later vision documents eventually led to working systems, and that was a big part of their success (especially the web and Bitcoin). Bush's vision did not. And yet it was hugely influential anyway.

It's fascinating that he's imagining this all through the lens of analog machines. In fact, Bush never really got into digital computing. It passed him by. But hardware aside, he was thinking about the right problems and at a great level of design abstraction.

Anyways, there's much, much more in the article. Well worth reading!

More fun things: see @hyfen's project to build a memex: https://hyfen.net/memex/