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Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today

1401 points alankay | 1 comments | 20 Jun 16 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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chews ◴[20 Jun 16 19:21 UTC] No.11940596[source]▶
Given that tablets have lived up to the Dynabook concept, what do you think about seeing 3 year olds with iPads?
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1. alankay1 ◴[21 Jun 16 15:32 UTC] No.11946424[source]▶
The Dynabook was/is much more of a "service idea" than a physical manifestation (there were actually 3 physical ideas for it). Today's tablets don't fulfill the service ideas.