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| | The Geodesic Network, OpenDoc, and CyberDog |
 | | Now, I remember people talking, and even skimming over articles, about CyberDog, Apple's OpenDoc environment for the internet, and I thought at the time that Apple was trying to write a Yet Another Netscape Killer. |
 | | Now, with geodesic "hammer" in hand, all I could see was nails: I could see that CyberDog isn't a Netscape killer at all, any more than OpenDoc is a Word 6 killer. |
 | | It's a code surfactant, breaking software up into smaller and smaller pieces, enabling it to exist in more and more remote places, making it more and more ubiquitous, more uncontrolled, more inefficient, and more powerful, and, paradoxically, more organized, in the emergent fashion of Kelly's "Out of Control". |
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