I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated.
Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go.