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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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0xdeadbeefbabe ◴[20 Jun 16 19:52 UTC] No.11940877[source]▶
Did you guys ever talk about Man-Computer Symbiosis in terms of the computer unfairly benefiting some men over other men?

One example could be, give me money and I'll give you a computer that can translate English to Spanish.

Another example could be, Apple share holders profit from iphone sales, and the iphone UI leads naive/normal people to think texting while driving is ok.

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alankay1 ◴[21 Jun 16 15:35 UTC] No.11946459[source]▶
Books have the same problem, and both are fixable (lots easier than the big ones we should be tending to)
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