... flexible competence. Genius

I believe that this interview was conducted for use in the 1992 documentary “The Machine That Changed the World.” What is interesting is that only a few minutes of this interview was used in the documentary but it’s clear that the writers of the documentary were clearly influenced by Alan Kay’s characterizations of key developments. The way he explains various things is almost exactly the same as the way it is explained in the documentary.

What is the “system” mentioned at 46:31? Is it available?

Thanks Prof. Kay. Don't know about the sister-kissing though...

Hi Alan, what is funny about history, or perhaps we should say strange and disappointing is that you keep claiming that Etoys was inspired by Logo when AgentSheets, a system that I demoed to you at one of your Apple Hill events (which I even financially supported), is really the true predecessor of Etoys. In case you lost it here is the reference of the paper describing it "A. Repenning and J. Ambach, "Tactile programming: a unified manipulation paradigm supporting program comprehension, composition and sharing," Proceedings 1996 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1996, pp. 102-109, doi: 10.1109/VL.1996.545275." Yes, block-based programming of rich-media content... years ahead of Etoys. And AgentCubes (3D) version is used these days by kids around the globe.

Perfect example how technology was originally intended to excel the human race but instead fast forward to today and this wonderful technology has been turned into tracking, spying devices along with psyop mind control software called social media that spreads hate, distrust and ultimately divides human beings. Ugh...growing pains.

Aan is a true treasure.

14:57 ARPA 16:00 Vannevar Bush 16:40 pathfinding 28:59 early "personal" computers 48:18 books chained to desks; so too computers; computers are expensive -- they'll be valuable when we don't have to chain them to desks 49:20 illiteracy/literacy when skill can be practiced by lay people; no such thing as medicine/immedicine (il-medicine) 1:50:08 software/hardware 1:51:58 arithmetic as special case of logic gating 1:52:10 turing 1:53:25 good programs handle the organic chemistry so you can make the cake 1:57:30 "the analytical engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the jacard loom weaves patterns of silk"

at 01:00:00 Papert, Smalltalk kids, Piaget & Bruner ... at 01:15:00 Theatre... at 01:24:00 the first painting programme 1972 at 01:38:00 VisiCalc at 01:56:00 Ada Augusta & Babbage first programming at 02:00:00 Puppet theatre... object oriented programming at 02:05:00 Tools & Agents ... manipulation(tools), management (agents), extensions, megamachines, flexible competence(A.I.) at 02:09:00 driving forces at 02:10:00 pervasive networking... at 02:11:00 newsfeeds .... at 02:12:00 Dynabook, intimacy, world wide infrastructure... at 02:14:00 Children, Education, programming ecologies... at 02:18:00 Dewey-simulating the adult world... at 02:20:00 Computers, education and value systems... at 02:24:00 A.I. common sense, science, non-sense... at 02:30:00 virtual reality ... at 02:36:00 Book of Kells ... at 02:38:00 Civilisation, literacy ... (reformatting from user, Tim Martin)

I am watching this video in Jan 2021 and after Corvid19 Have shutdown the word in 2020 because we have no idea how System Dynamics work. Its AMAZIN how My Kay's presentation aged well.

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Fucking incredible. Thank you for sharing!

Amazing man with amazing ideas, His hair is also up there with John McCarthy in terms of epic computer scientist do's!

Thank you very much for your efforts. Until we have perfect AI speech recreation to "rerecord" any and all talks ever given in perfect quality we need people like you.

at 01:00 Papert, Smalltalk kids, Piaget & Bruner ... at 01:15 Theatre ... at 01:24 the first painting programme 1972 at 01:38 VisiCalc at 01:56 Ada Augusta & Babbage first programming at 02:00 Puppet theatre ... object oriented programming at 02:05 Tools & Agents ... manipulation(tools), management(agents), extensions, megamachines, flexible competence(A.I.) at 02:09 driving forces at 02:10 pervasive networking ... at 02:11 newsfeeds ... at 02:12 Dynabook, intimacy, world wide infrastructure ... at 02:14 Children, Education, programming ecologies ... at 02:18 Dewey - simulating the adult world ... at 02:20 Computers, education and value systems ... at 02:24 A.I. common sense, science, non-sense ... at 02:30 virtual reality ... at 02:36 Book of Kells ... at 02:38 Civilisation, literacy ...

Just wow.

Amazing!!! Alan is a true inspiration.

Are my headphones broken, or is the audio only coming out of my left earbud?

(Year Currently Unknown). According to my source, the date the talk was given was Oct. 22nd, 2009. (I've been also collecting Alan Kay's talks: tinlizzie.org/IA/index.php/Talks_by_Alan_Kay so thank you for doing this.)

Listening to Alan Kay is a great experience. He gives us wonderful and complicated ideas in a simple manner.

Thank you for sharing those video of Alan Kay thoughts ! very interesting :)

Thank you a lot for sharing this!!! For people being far away from people like Alan and surrounded by very different kind of people these interviews and thoughts of Alan Kay is like a fresh air and really enriching. Thank you very much. Having possibility to listen people like this really makes a difference and .I am really grateful to you for your efforts to make it available.

Etoys 101....... ::snoozefest::

This is /incredible/.

Thank you

How were you able to obtain this wonderful video?