Personal Dynamic Media
The Dynabook vision and its potential applications, as well as the use of the interim Dynabook and the various systems created in the Smalltalk language, are discussed in this paper by Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg.
newmediareader.comThe real revolution erupts when everyone has personal workbots, the descendants of Baxter, at their beck and call.
read about them in Systems Archetypes: Diagnosing Systemic Issues and Designing High-Leverage Interventions by Daniel H. Kim (1993, Cambridge, Mass.: Pegasus Communications). Or see The Fifth Discipline, pp. 378-90; issues of The Systems Thinker;
Building the Story for PTC
The same pattern occurs in the developmental history of other software genres, such as word processors, spreadsheets, or e-mail clients. They were all built out of bits, not atoms, but they took just as long to go from idea to mass success as HDTV did.