By dirtyaura
I totally disagree. For example, Edward Tufte never built some grandiose project around his ideas, but influenced thousands of people with his books, projects and talks. We might evaluate his legacy in 50 years, and it might be bigger than any single application of his ideas.
Same with Victor, I think it’s better that he focuses on the exploring the idea space and finds even better approaches. If his ideas are any good, there will be modern Henry Fords that will assemble teams and resources and will build businesses around his ideas. Henry Fords will potentially reap millions of dollars of profits.
Bret Victor will have his legacy as a reseacher and explorer of ideas. He will never get tons of money out of his ideas, but it seems that it is the path he has deliberately chosen. His name might be mentioned in human computer interface research 100 years from now, alongside Engelbart, Kay, etc.
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10644379
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