when Alan Kay got into a convo with Rich Hickey in the comment section of HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941656

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Hi Alan! I've got some assumptions regarding the upcoming big paradigm shift (an... | Hacker News

> Strange that he still saw the field of action and the field of perception separately

As a result of missing keyboards *as default*, teens are already starting to see keyboards as old people's tech. On the other hand, they are completely lost when they need to produce a longer text on their device.

So, in essence, I think we should have physical keyboards *as default* on educational devices, exactly as #AlanKay envisioned them.

@dannyjpalmer It's about time these teams got trained on the difference between archive and backup (or whatever the buzzwords for them are these days).

I got the gist of it back in the 1980s by working on IBM big boxes. i.e. it was a solved problem *at least* 35 years ago.
#AlanKay was right--IT is a pop culture, so we frequently learn nothing from the past.

In my words, we reinvent the square wheel every generation, before we fix it.

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

“我们不需要的是某种模仿易犯错的人类、并被工业革命放大了的东西。让易犯错的人类制造垃圾、再由互联网将其成倍放大,已经够糟糕的了。”

“另一位将军说,我们甚至不想要普通人类的智能。我们已经征召了两百五十万士兵,可以训练他们做任何事。我们已经有了‘普通人类智能’的机器人。”

为什么真正的计算机革命从未发生
Why the Real Computer Revolution Never Happened | Alan Kay & Anjan Katta - YouTube
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👴💻 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
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI

Be sure to read the comment from Alan Kay at the bottom of the article! We succeeded in running the Smalltalk-76 language on our vintag...

A few of my influences: #hashtagRefresh #CoryDoctorow, #DavidGraeber. Toss in some #DavidAttenborough and #AlanKay