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#An extensive graphics capability will be added to the system by coupling it to a "sketchpad" program already developed at Brown University.
#A facility will be created for retaining a complete, or a user specified, chronological trail of editorial changes, and reconstituting any previous state of the textual content for them. This is desirable both for reference to previous drafts, and for return to document states deemed to have been preferable to some present condition.
#We are, of course, keenly interested in finding devices better suited to these uses than the light pen. Such mechanisms as the data tablet, [[SRI International|SRI]]'s
#In the long term, the prospect is that systems like ours and SRI's and their successors will be of growing use in all forms of text handling. Whether such systems will replace the printed word, as asserted by Nelson (Nelson, 1967) is a matter on which we need not speculate. But their usefulness and practicability has been clearly demonstrated.
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