Verner Vinge describing his ideal online-collaborative, history-preserving, ideal text editor in 1993.
@th His concept sounds a lot like the playback feature in Etherpad and various clones.
But that is a super interesting point about how a marked up paper manuscript represents a kind of processual time-stamp and "making-of" visibility that you don't get with typical digital workflows (even if they use version control). Do you have a source for this?
@th One of the greatest science fiction authors mentioning the greatest editor. Nice.
In all seriousness, some sort of collaborative, plain hypertext system that's accessible to the layperson and doesn't depend on the web would be wonderful. Perhaps an extension/formalization of org-mode?
I love how the ideas of remote collaboration and hypertext have been with us since the beginning of the computer revolution and the Mother of All Demos. It's sad that they've not been truly realized.
I'm writing an essay about hypertext and collaborative editing tools and I'd like to quote parts of this. DuckDuckGo, Google, and Veronica-2 have been less than helpful
@skadi The Hugo/Nebula awards in 1993 included an annotated version of _Fire Upon The Deep_ that has notes from the author https://archive.org/details/hugo_nebula_1993
@th Now it's the future, and what did we get? MS Teams. 😕