Grand Challenges in Computing IDM

CREATED: 200702050935 Speaker: Alan Kay

most work is incremental, eg programming
ARPA-IPTO style
LOGO - Seymour Papert
Recent work ** Croquet, massively parallel distributed computing ** Squeak ** Etoys authoring for children ** OLPC, $100 laptop
Book: Amusing ourselves to death (Neil Postman) ** distractions ** changing our perception of normalcy
Architecture/Design -> the key to scaling up ** Pyramids -> ? -> Empire state building ** Biology -> Multi cell organisms -> …