DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
Here's the classic Dynabook paper from when Alan Kay was at PARC in 1972: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/hc_pers_comp_for_children.pdf
The nuances, the concepts he chooses to elucidate upon and explore in-depth, the very nature of the topic and the reasoning behind his choosing to devote his life to it, is so markedly different than "move fast break things" in concept and practice.
it is a key part of what makes me feel like a stranger in a strange land in the tech world these days.
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
In historical context, writing about low power flat screen handheld computers in 1972, while NASA was still flying Apollo missions(!), was indeed a pretty sci-fi handwavy idea, as the paper mentions, but *he knew* he was designing for ten or more years out.
here we are, with our minimally viable craptablets.
I call a do-over.
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