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The typesetter wipes his brow with his sleeve, takes a swig of whisky, unlocks a box labeled THE BIG INTEGRAL.
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As Kay himself has said so many times, this question is entirely about funding. With ARPA/IPTO-style funding, you get Kays (and Engelbarts, Minskys, McCarthys, Corbatós, etc) With VC and NSF, you don't.
Even Kay hasn't been able to "be Kay" since the 80s: worrydream.com/2017-12-30-al…
Who is the equivalent of Alan Kay of our generation of programmers? Someone who has the grand unifying vision for the domain of computing. 😐
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Worrying about sentient AI as the ice caps melt is like standing on the tracks as the train rushes in, worrying about being hit by lightning
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Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems in 1964, transmitting a desperate message to machine learning engineers in 2017
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★ Dynamicland's new website documents ten years of progress toward a humane dynamic medium. dynamicland.org
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★ What Can A Technologist Do About Climate Change? (A Personal View) worrydream.com/ClimateChange…
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If any "founders" out there want to "disrupt" our 401 ppm atmospheric CO2, or "moonshot" ocean acidification, that would be cool
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I really like @windyoona's "Sound of the Dialup" chart:
windytan.com/2012/11/the-sou…
so I printed it out and put it on the wall. (Turn on sound.)
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★ The Future of Programming. A talk about revolutionary new ideas for programming. (30 min) vimeo.com/71278954
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Dynamicland's new website, documenting ten years of work, will be released tomorrow at dynamicland.org.
In the meantime, this video about Dynamicland's precursor gives some backstory and motivations. piped.video/watch?v=uI7J3II5…
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Hi. Does this give you feelings?
xkcd.com/1732/
Here's what you can do:
worrydream.com/ClimateChange…
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I have a thing about "The Two Computer Sciences" that I've talked about but never written down
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Christina Engelbart @ChristinaDEI and I made a video digest of the Mother of All Demos. dougengelbart.org/firsts/196…
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Gallery of Concept Visualization: conceptviz.github.io
Explorable Explanations Hub: explorableexplanations.com
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Dynamicland's new documentation space will go online on Sept 4.
As a prelude, here is a video about Dynamicland's precursor. piped.video/watch?v=uI7J3II5…
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★ Learnable Programming: designing a programming system for understanding programs. worrydream.com/LearnableProg…
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no no, I'm not interested in "project-based learning", I'm interested in "learning-based project-ing"
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I think about this suggestion from Scott a lot. I kind of think every CS undergrad should be required to implement a toy Xanadu.
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★ The Humane Representation of Thought: a trail map for the 21st century. (keynote at UIST and SPLASH, 1 hour) vimeo.com/115154289
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Q: This will never work.
A: It already works. We've been using it for years, for everything.
Q: But I can't imagine how it would work.
A: If you could imagine it, we wouldn't have had to build it.
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Eric Betzig, recipient of 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, pictured here with Windows Task Manager because PowerPoint stopped playing video.
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★ Drawing Dynamic Visualizations. A talk about a new approach to creating data graphics. (35 min) vimeo.com/66085662
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The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of attention which it can use for something else
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Apparatus is a dynamic drawing tool by @mandy3284. A beautiful and important piece of work. aprt.us
piped.video/watch?v=i3Xack9u…
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Direct manipulation of mathematical functions. This is huge. tobyschachman.com/Shadershop… (by @mandy3284)
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don't have time to write up my favorite books of 2015, so here's the whole damn shelf worrydream.com/Shelf2015/
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John McCarthy 10/24/2011
Douglas Engelbart 7/2/2013
Marvin Minsky 1/24/2016
Wes Clark 2/22/2016
Seymour Papert 7/31/2016
Jay Forrester 11/16/2016
Bob Taylor 4/13/2017
Chuck Thacker 6/12/2017
Larry Roberts 12/26/2018
Fernando Corbató 7/12/2019
Larry Tesler 2/17/2020
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A small request: If you think this work is interesting, consider sharing it with someone you know who is "not a computer person". dynamicland.org
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they misinterpret you, then they ignore you, then they call you "inventor of the mouse".
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60% of my fav links from 10 yrs ago are 404. I wonder if Library of Congress expects 60% of their collection to go up in smoke every decade.
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Today's Apple announcement made possible by Margaret Minsky's lateral-force haptic texture synthesis research, 20 years ago. Thanks Marg!
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Lovely interview with @humantransit (via @vectorpark).
"That attitude is catastrophic" is my new favorite sentence.
ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/01/…
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"Caveat": a writing platform like "Medium" but you annotate every sentence you write w/ context, hedging, exceptions, "it's not that simple"
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A science book that you read by playing interactive simulations. A tour de force by @cgingold. earthprimer.com/
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The first sentence of Maxwell's monumental, world-changing "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism".
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★ Stop Drawing Dead Fish. A talk about art and computers. (1 hour) vimeo.com/64895205
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If you're not at the right place at the right time, you've got to make the right place and make it the right time.
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By request, I put the climate change essay on github.
github.com/worrydream/Climat…
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(2/3) I wonder how many programming researchers today actually deeply understand Sussman's analogy and point here:
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From the preface of a book from 1909 about best practices for running your machine shop. (Keep reading.)
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To be clear, this has nothing to do with Apple being "bad" or "good". It's a structural problem. There are vast incentives for logging the forest, planting seeds has become an unfundable nightmare, and many people don't realize that trees grow from seeds in the first place.
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Pretty sure that moving a mouse pointer to an onscreen toolbar will soon feel as bizarre and anachronistic as manually dragging a scrollbar.
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Dear e-book platforms: If you don't support computation & dynamically-generated gfx, you are not an e-book. You are a fax machine simulator.
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Growing up within a worldview of "apps" and "dev tools" constrains people to see everything in those terms. It can take tremendous unlearning to even be able to /see/ an "authoring is always on" system for what it is.
squeakland.org/resources/art…
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.@davidad @DanielleFong In my experience, it often seems to go more like this. worrydream.com/oatmeal/you-s…
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look, I don't normally call attention to these things, but Tufte picked me and @mbostock as the Future, I can't even on.ft.com/12QZ93Y
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★ Inventing on Principle (keynote at the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, 1 hour) vimeo.com/36579366
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60 OVER 60 DISRUPTORS INNOVATORS impatient to CHANGE THE WORLD with 40 yrs of careful thought & lasting contributions worrydream.com/Links2013/
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Don't panic. Don't despair. Build.
If you call yourself an engineer, it's time to step up and start engineering.
worrydream.com/ClimateChange
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Updated my personal website a bit. worrydream.com
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★ Seeing Spaces. A talk about a new kind of maker space. (15 min) vimeo.com/97903574
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"You'll notice it's gone basically to zero." Please watch this important talk by @DanielleFong
nantucketproject.com/daniell…
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"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." -- CS Lewis on assigning CS students to implement Xanadu instead of some compiler or database or whatever
I think about this suggestion from Scott a lot. I kind of think every CS undergrad should be required to implement a toy Xanadu.
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Empathy results from seeing and understanding the larger system that you and others are embedded in, seeing *why* others act as they do.
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Four years ago I was leaving their house into the snow and Gloria said "you need a hat" and gave me Marvin's hat.
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Hey, remember this from six years ago? worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnT…
This fire has been burning for a long time. @Dynamicland1
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A number used to be an tactile phenomenon. Now it's an image.
If wonder if music-making will go the same way, purely manipulating intangible marks on screens, instruments becoming as obsolete as the abacus.
(via journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf… )
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Beautiful work from @unconed. Imagine these visuals not as "explainers" but just "the stuff you work with every day"
acko.net/files/gltalks/tools…
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"So can you talk to me about how MacPaint started? Was there a concept at design meetings?"
"Hahahaha no no no no."
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