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Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf]
- gjvc 11y agoresearch for this paper clearly wasn't very thorough. this quote, which is key to the title is 10 years wide of the mark: ``"As the computer scientist and graphical interface pioneer Alan Kay likes to say, "the real computer revolution hasn't happened yet" (“The Computer Revolution,” 2007)" '' This title, as far as I can tell, first appeared in the 1997 OOPSLA talk of the same name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY
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- stcredzero 11y agoBesides Case and Hart's piece, we have a few other concrete examples of how computing could be a medium for understanding systems. Only a few? There are a lot of them, actually. Games are starting to become these, particularly ones which encourage exploration and making, like Minecraft. I think we're only at the beginning of our exploration of the craft of emergent sandbox worlds. We're probably at an analogous stage in emergent sandbox worlds as the cartoon doodles found on Japanese temple beams from around 1200 years ago. One day, we'll get to the sandbox world equivalent of "The Watchmen."
- carussell 11y agoThere's no rule that says the author must find Kay's talk to be more compelling than his VPRI memo, and it isn't evidence that the paper was poorly researched.
- gozo 11y agoEh what? It's a reference. The year has no other meaning than to account for when the referenced work was published, which was in 2007.
- dang 11y agoUrl changed from http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/download/703/617 http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/down..., which initiates a file download.
- carussell 11y agoThe server won't send the Content-Disposition:"attachment[...]" header if you use this URL: http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/viewFile/703/617 http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view.... (For me, the abstract page was confusing, because you have to see the tiny "PDF" link and then click it to get to the actual article.)
- dang 11y agoOk thanks! Changed to that.
- far33d 11y agoIt's kind of ironic that this article is presented as a PDF version of a journal paper.
- agumonkey 11y agoThe dilemma of old proven tech. -- sent over smtp
- david-given 11y agoHN has an SMTP interface?!