Robert Tinny's Balloon Limited Edition Print www.smalltalk.org The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay The Full Alan Kay Quote Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn't violate too many of Newton's Laws! Alan Kay in 1971, ...

Tools for Thought by Howard Rheingold April, 2000: a revised edition of Tools for Thought is available from MIT Press, including a revised chapter with 1999 interviews of Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Brenda Laurel, and Avron Barr. The idea that people could use computers to amplify thought and communication, as tools for intellectual work and social activity, was not an invention of the ...

Middot &nbsp ROLLING STONE &nbsp &middot &nbsp 7 DECEMBER 1972 &nbsp &middot S P A C E W A R Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums by Stewart Brand Stewart Brand, 33, is a graduate of Standford (biology). From 1968 to 1971 he edited the Whole Earth Catalog. The first Intergalactic spacewar olympics will be held here, Wednesday 19 October, 2000 hours. First prize will be a ...

Therefore, let me argue that the actual dawn of user interface design first happened when computer designers finally noticed, not just that end users had functioning minds, but that a better understanding of how those minds worked would completely shift the paradigm of interaction. Researchers at Xerox PARC Alan Kay discussing user interface Alan Kay | Interface 1972 In 1972, after forming the ...

Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of contents. Alan Kay In the late 60s, Alan Kay was a wild-eyed maniac doing his thesis on The Reactive Engine and forecasting that in the near future we would have cheap personal laptop computers with crisp color graphics and more computing power than an IBM mainframe. Obviously a nut case. Today we in fact have cheap personal laptop ...