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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: 0.51s | 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).
1. testmonkey ◴[20 Jun 16 18:40 UTC] No.11940214[source]▶
What do you think about a "digital Sabbath," [1] specifically in the context of touchstones like:

Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect [2] Edge's annual question, How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think? [3] Carr's Is Google Making Us Stupid? [4] ...and other common criticisms of "information overload"

[1] http://www.sabbathmanifesto.org/ [2] http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html [3] https://www.edge.org/annual-question/how-is-the-internet-cha... [4] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-googl...

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2. alankay1 ◴[20 Jun 16 20:27 UTC] No.11941268[source]▶
Candles, wine and bread aren't technologies? Hard to take this seriously. (And I like to play music, and both music and musical instruments are technology, etc.)

A better issue is not getting sucked into "legal drugs" that have no nutritional value.

"We are already stupid" -- this is why things could be much much better but aren't. We have to start with ourselves, and a positive way to do this is to ask "what can real education really do to help humanity?"