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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: 0.012s | 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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kens ◴[20 Jun 16 19:24 UTC] No.11940619[source]▶
Looking at your 1972 Dynabook paper [1], would you make any changes to the Dynabook vision now? Also, what do you see as the biggest missing pieces (software or hardware) today? What current software gets closest to the vision?

[1] Everyone should really take a look at the Dynabook paper: http://history-computer.com/Library/Kay72.pdf

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1. alankay1 ◴[20 Jun 16 20:47 UTC] No.11941437[source]▶
There's a lot online and the Viewpoints "writings" page
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2. callil ◴[21 Jun 16 00:50 UTC] No.11942766[source]▶
link: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php - you can filter by author in the dropdown.