Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.