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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

1401 points alankay | 2 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source

This request originated via recent discussions on HN, and the forming of HARC! at YC Research. I'll be around for most of the day today (though the early evening).
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_ayv0 ◴[20 Jun 16 18:17 UTC] No.11939963[source]▶
Hi Alan,

I have three questions -

1. If you were to design a new programming paradigm today using what we have learnt about OOP what would it be?

2. With VR and AR (Hololens) becoming a reality (heh) how do you see user interfaces changing to work better with these systems? What new things need to be invented or rethought?

3. I also worked at Xerox for a number of years although not at PARC. I was always frustrated by their attitude to new ideas and lack of interest in new technologies until everyone else was doing it. Obviously businesses change over time and it has been a long time since Xerox were a technology leader. If you could pick your best and worst memories from Xerox what would they be?

Cheers for your time and all your amazing work over the years :)

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1. Pxtl ◴[20 Jun 16 18:26 UTC] No.11940061[source]▶
I'd be curious if he's planning on returning to Croquet/OpenCobalt with the VR revolution.
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2. stcredzero ◴[20 Jun 16 18:49 UTC] No.11940286[source]▶
Come to think of it, AltSpaceVR on the HTC Vive looks a lot like Croquet.

I think Google Glass should've been held back until VR/Augmented Reality gets established. Many Croquet style roving "viewports" projected from Google Glass feeds in an abstracted 3D model of a real world location would be a great way to do reporting on events.