This might be relevant: in the AMA that he did less than a year ago [1], Alan Kay said [2]: > "Dealers of Lightning" is not the best book to read (try Mitchell

This might be relevant: in the AMA that he did less than a year ago [1], Alan Kay said [2]: > "Dealers of Lightning" is not the best book to read (try Mitchell Waldrop's "The Dream Machine"). That said, I have read Dealers of Lightning myself, and really liked it. I have not yet got around to The Dream Machine. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11940756