[ExI] Ahead of time

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 3:35 PM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>   As someone who did computer science work from the 90s through the
> 20-teens that is only recently being slowly rediscovered bit by bit, I get
> the pain that comes from the world ignoring your best work just because it
> is a couple of decades ahead of its time.
>
> -Kelly
>

Can you expand on that?

I reached back in time to State of the Art of Computer Animation (1988) on
vhs to wow nerds buying rear projection big tv.  Over the course of
chatting, i realized what i was trying to recover was the sense of wonder
and excitement that was happening.  So much of now is recycled and
derivative that "latest and greatest" is feeling a little too late and not
that great.

During the conversation,  Gemini looked up my friend from college who
shared foundational concepts in Topology and introduced me to GEB.  It
would be cool if he replied to my comments on his arXiv paper.

Anyway, your comment above was striking for "computer science" and the
exact time period I was discussing.  Maybe it's "just" synchronicity, but
if you had specifics in mind when you made that reference,  I'm interested
in the details.

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