RE: IM and Presence history

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>]

> From: Brian Rosen [mailto:br at brianrosen.net] 

> > However, what this subthread demonstrates is that they were 
> > conceptually an incremental change, not a giant, discontinuous, 
> > intellectual leap.
> > 
> > I thought we all knew that.
> Oh, I agree, we knew that.   There are very, very few discontinuous
> intellectual leaps in our part of the universe.  It's hard to 
> name one that happened in the past decade or two.
> 
> Can we name any discontinuous intellectual leaps of late in 
> computer networking?  Now that I think about it, forget "of 
> late", have there EVER been any?

People not bits: The idea that computing is about the user, not the machine.

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