Ad Hoc Collaboration Is Easy for People

The idea was to enable a new kind of collaboration where people with individual systems on their individual devices can physically and therefore literally come together in a shared display and interaction space. With the right instrumentation of running executable code, it ought to be minimally possible for digital systems as well as just that no one's ever built one of these. But I think it's accessible right now. It's really interesting. The sugar OS that was on the OLPC did a little tiny bit of not the standing in front of a display and sharing stuff, but you could intersect and interact with people in the OS in ways that were pretty clever. And then Jupiter Notebooks, which is like a lab notebook