![]() At the same time, as envisioned by Kay, these media are expandable – that is, users themselves should be able to easily add new properties, as well as to invent new media. These new media use already existing representational formats as their building blocks, while adding many new previously nonexistent properties. What were their reasons for inventing the concepts and techniques that today make it possible for computers to represent, or “remediate” other media? I suggest that Kay and others aimed to create a particular kind of new media – rather than merely simulating the appearances of old ones. While new media theorists have spent considerable efforts in trying to understand the relationships between digital media and older physical and electronic media, the important sources – the writing and projects by Ivan Sutherland, Douglas Englebardt, Ted Nelson, Alan Kay, and other pioneers working in the 1960s and 1970s – remain largely unexamined. ![]()
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