Melvin's digital garden

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 -> …

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