Croquet 2 Play

I agree with Peter Fisk’s idea

… that Croquet (like Smalltalk did before it) is showing us the future of human-computer interaction

but when he says

I don’t think that hundreds of millions of people are going to install Squeak on their computers.

I think he’s not factoring in that Croquet is a Smalltalk evolved meme whose influence isn’t measured in market-share but in mind-share. Peter actually demonstrates this meme factor in describing his project

Vista Smalltalk is an attempt to create an environment like Croquet using only widely deployed software components.

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