http://www.wordyard.com/2005/01/19/1968-the-year-of-the-blog/ Technology, politics, culture Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:43:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.wordyard.com/2005/01/19/1968-the-year-of-the-blog/#comment-2890 John Ferral Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:57:02 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=815#comment-2890 Dear Mr. Rosenberg: I enjoyed your book "Dreaming In Code". Your book offered many new insights to me, despite many years of studying the challenges of software. However, I was completely puzzled by your mention on page 46 that Douglas Engelbart's NLS project went into decline, partly because it "...foundered on the shoals of the human potential movement and Werner Erhard's est..." What is "est"? Perhaps you could add some more commentary at your web site. (If you already have, I cannot find it.) Could you elaborate on how closely Werner Erhard and "est" frustrated the development of NLS? Did you mean to say that the general cultural climate of in the U.S., in the 1970s, turned against the financial support of all computer and technology projects? Or, for some reasons not stated, did Werner Erhard and "est" have a more direct impact on Douglas Engelbart's NLS project? Despite the current capabilities to search the internet, I cannot find clear explanation of "est". The online dictionaries and search engines are frustrated by this strange thing called "est", which is partly a concept, partly an acronym, but seems to be primarily a motivational training program. (WikiPedia.org offered some information concerning Werner Erhard and the origin of "est".) John Ferral Dear Mr. Rosenberg:
I enjoyed your book “Dreaming In Code”. Your book offered many new insights to me, despite many years of studying the challenges of software.
However, I was completely puzzled by your mention on page 46 that Douglas Engelbart’s NLS project went into decline, partly because it “…foundered on the shoals of the human potential movement and Werner Erhard’s est…” What is “est”? Perhaps you could add some more commentary at your web site. (If you already have, I cannot find it.)
Could you elaborate on how closely Werner Erhard and “est” frustrated the development of NLS? Did you mean to say that the general cultural climate of in the U.S., in the 1970s, turned against the financial support of all computer and technology projects? Or, for some reasons not stated, did Werner Erhard and “est” have a more direct impact on Douglas Engelbart’s NLS project?
Despite the current capabilities to search the internet, I cannot find clear explanation of “est”. The online dictionaries and search engines are frustrated by this strange thing called “est”, which is partly a concept, partly an acronym, but seems to be primarily a motivational training program. (WikiPedia.org offered some information concerning Werner Erhard and the origin of “est”.)
John Ferral

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