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#AlanKay

Fascinating article by #AlanKay from 1992, "The Early History Of Smalltalk": https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

Context is worth 80 IQ points.
-- Alan Kay

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlanKay #Intelligence

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Dinosaur #Tracks #Colorado

👴💻 Ah yes, the classic tale of nerds playing with ancient tech and pretending it's #groundbreaking 🎩🖥️. Spoiler: They tweaked a scrollbar and expected applause 🤡🙌. Don't miss Alan Kay's obligatory comment cameo at the end—it's the stuff of legends, folks! 🚀📜
https://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html #ancienttech #nerdculture #scrollbartweak #AlanKay #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Alan Kay on what platform could have set computing on a better trajectory than the 1980s micros did.

https://www.quora.com/In-the-early-days-of-personal-computing-what-one-platform-if-successfully-commercialized-could-have-set-computing-on-a-better-trajectory-than-the-1980s-micros-did-Details-in-comments/answer/Alan-Kay-11?ch=10&oid=1477743858328604&share=ae07a68f&srid=ofklT&target_type=answer

#AlanKay #retrocomputing

The only successful way to predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlanKay #Innovation #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

What a change a few thumbnails can do!
#AlanKay Media Center https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html

#TED8 panel with Brian Ferren, #AlanKay & Danny Hillis on
the power of #Storytelling (1996)

#mproveinsights https://mprove.de/insights/

utube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdo7mOahZwc

#algorithmicphilosophy

From Xerox Parc via Find Nemo to Siddhartha!

#AlgorithmicPhilosophy with #AlanKay and Vishal Sikka
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPsZyfGCaKs

#historyOfInformatics #Innovation

More Alan Kay at https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html

Larry Yaeger’s Homepage

#ComputerGraphics #AppleNewton #ArtificialIntelligence #AlanKay #ComputerHistory #LarryYaeger
https://shinyverse.org/larryy/

@Jtuchel Yeah! Me too, when I have time, it is always enjoyment. It is the only things to do, ranting on "what if..." is waste of time. I personally came late on #Smalltalk, and thanks to the Free software initiative of #alankay

“The destiny of computers is to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for everyone in the world pervasively networked worldwide”.

https://www.quora.com/What-made-Xerox-PARC-special-Who-else-today-is-like-them/answer/Alan-Kay-11

#AlanKay #jcrLicklider #darpa #xeroxParc

@JohannesIEckert Sehr spannend. Danke! Now it is. #AlanKay Media Center https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html#y2019

October 2023 Update:

This month I once again got sucked into the world of #alankay and #Smalltalk.

Sooo much inspiration to get from there. It also led me to start a new project to explore and learn...

http://rickardlindberg.me/writing/newsletter/october-2023/

I just happened to find this drawing by Alan Kay from the early seventies. His Dynabook is the blueprint of the laptop. Strange that he still saw the field of action and the field of perception separately. Otherwise it would have been an anticipation of the iPad. #AlanKay #Dynabook #Laptop #iPad #perception #action #Zeug #Spielzeug #Schreibzeug

I just happened to find this drawing by Alan Kay from the early seventies. His Dynabook is the blueprint of the laptop. Strange that he still saw the field of action and the field of perception separately. Otherwise it would have been an anticipation of the iPad. #AlanKay #Dynabook #Laptop #iPad #perception #action #Zeug #Spielzeug #Schreibzeug

I just happened to find this drawing by Alan Kay from the early seventies. His Dynabook is the blueprint of the laptop. Strange that he still saw the field of action and the field of perception separately. Otherwise it would have been an anticipation of the iPad. #AlanKay #Dynabook #Laptop #iPad #perception #action #Zeug #Spielzeug #Schreibzeug

I just happened to find this drawing by Alan Kay from the early seventies. His Dynabook is the blueprint of the laptop. Strange that he still saw the field of action and the field of perception separately. Otherwise it would have been an anticipation of the iPad. #AlanKay #Dynabook #Laptop #iPad #perception #action #Zeug #Spielzeug #Schreibzeug

I just happened to find this drawing by Alan Kay from the early seventies. His Dynabook is the blueprint of the laptop. Strange that he still saw the field of action and the field of perception separately. Otherwise it would have been an anticipation of the iPad. #AlanKay #Dynabook #Laptop #iPad #perception #action #Zeug #Spielzeug #Schreibzeug

The Internet's forgotten collaborative future:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

#Memex #VannevarBush #Dynabook #AlanKay #ProjectXanadu #TedNelson #Dynamicland #BretVictor

I intervjuet forsøker Kristen Nygård å forklare objektorientert programmering (#OOP).

I tillegg til Ole-Johan Dahl så nevnes Alan Kay, Xerox PARC, #SmallTalk og Apple Lisa (skrevet som LISA). Endel unøyaktigheter er det i teksten, f.eks. Alan Kay skrev ikke SmallTalk alene, men det er vel ikke så galt til å være et reklameblad.

#AlanKay #XeroxParc #AppleNytt #Simula #OleJohanDahl #Macintosh #norsktut #allheimen

#Quotes #Creativity #AlanKay

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There's an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha'. Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we're in -- the one that we think is reality. -Alan Kay, computer scientist (b. 17 May 1940)

Zapping into #GoogleIO…
They just mentioned #AlanKay #Dynabook 😍

"If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems." – #AlanKay #quote /via @stefanvoigt

@dcbrock

Regarding your tweet

🧷 https://twitter.com/dcbrock/status/1422574574768640010

Does this ⬇️ anecdotal report by #AlanKay shed some light on the similarity?

🧷 (Quora) https://qr.ae/pGDJb6

See also

🦎 https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp/538

🌺

🏷️ #LispMachine #MITAILab #Apple #AppleMac #MITCADR #SteveJobs #Scheme #Lisp #CommonLisp #XeroxAlto #XeroxParc #Notetaker #Smalltalk #AdeleGoldberg #DanIngalls #LarryTesler #AppleLisa #Interlisp #XeroxDorado #XeroxDolphin #XeroxDandelion

@dcbrock

Regarding your tweet

🧷 https://twitter.com/dcbrock/status/1422574574768640010

Does this ⬇️ anecdotal report by #AlanKay shed some light on the similarity?

🧷 (Quora) https://qr.ae/pGDJb6

See also

🦎 https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp/538

🌺

🏷️ #LispMachine #MITAILab #Apple #AppleMac #MITCADR #SteveJobs #Scheme #Lisp #CommonLisp #XeroxAlto #XeroxParc #Notetaker #Smalltalk #AdeleGoldberg #DanIngalls #LarryTesler #AppleLisa #Interlisp #XeroxDorado #XeroxDolphin #XeroxDandelion

@dcbrock

Regarding your tweet

🧷 https://twitter.com/dcbrock/status/1422574574768640010

Does this ⬇️ anecdotal report by #AlanKay shed some light on the similarity?

🧷 (Quora) https://qr.ae/pGDJb6

See also

🦎 https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp/538

🌺

🏷️ #LispMachine #MITAILab #Apple #AppleMac #MITCADR #SteveJobs #Scheme #Lisp #CommonLisp #XeroxAlto #XeroxParc #Notetaker #Smalltalk #AdeleGoldberg #DanIngalls #LarryTesler #AppleLisa #Interlisp #XeroxDorado #XeroxDolphin #XeroxDandelion

@dcbrock

Regarding your tweet

🧷 https://twitter.com/dcbrock/status/1422574574768640010

Does this ⬇️ anecdotal report by #AlanKay shed some light on the similarity?

🧷 (Quora) https://qr.ae/pGDJb6

See also

🦎 https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp/538

🌺

🏷️ #LispMachine #MITAILab #Apple #AppleMac #MITCADR #SteveJobs #Scheme #Lisp #CommonLisp #XeroxAlto #XeroxParc #Notetaker #Smalltalk #AdeleGoldberg #DanIngalls #LarryTesler #AppleLisa #Interlisp #XeroxDorado #XeroxDolphin #XeroxDandelion

@dcbrock

Regarding your tweet

🧷 https://twitter.com/dcbrock/status/1422574574768640010

Does this ⬇️ anecdotal report by #AlanKay shed some light on the similarity?

🧷 (Quora) https://qr.ae/pGDJb6

See also

🦎 https://telegram.me/FamilyOfLisp/538

🌺

🏷️ #LispMachine #MITAILab #Apple #AppleMac #MITCADR #SteveJobs #Scheme #Lisp #CommonLisp #XeroxAlto #XeroxParc #Notetaker #Smalltalk #AdeleGoldberg #DanIngalls #LarryTesler #AppleLisa #Interlisp #XeroxDorado #XeroxDolphin #XeroxDandelion

@akkartik @ploum I guess the original purpose of computers is lost, the original kind of user along with it. Is that something to lament? What was appreciable about that kind?

The new kind of user is not a programmer, irrespective of how much #AlanKay would want them to be. This user is happy consuming content unmindful of the system's problems, like consuming gasoline or electricity.

"But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion that Guitar Hero is the same as a real guitar. That’s the simple long and the short of it." #AlanKay https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now

L’ordinateur est un médium.

https://journal.loupbrun.ca/n/064/
#MarshallMcLuhan #AlanKay

Good question @Shamar I don't see how either. I can imagine a network of communicating objects, and you can do a lot with that. But perhaps we're only seeing interfaces, not mechanism?

#alankay #dynamicland #englebart