A few notes on Vannevar Bush's amazing essay, "As We May Think", from the 1945(!) @TheAtlantic :https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ …
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I reread the Engelbart paper every few years. I don't feel up to the systems he proposes - even the pale diluted version which is Emacs and/or org-mode is too overwhelming & hard to remember, never mind a Lisp Machine...
Much of Emacs+org seems like accidental complexity to me. Admittedly, by all accounts, NLS had a lot of that too. Larry Tesler on modes (and, incidentally, the complexity of NLS) is interesting: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2212896 …
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Basically, LT points out that in NLS there was a verb-object command form. Today, we usually use the reverse: so we select the text (or whatever), and then decide what action (verb) we want to apply. And LT argues, pretty convincingly, that object-verb is usually better.
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