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When I type "the power of context" into Google, the front page is dominated by Malcom Gladwell and your essay is absent, sadly. Fortunately, it looks like the
by xiaoma 9y ago
When I type "the power of context" into Google, the front page is dominated by Malcom Gladwell and your essay is absent, sadly.
Fortunately, it looks like the PDF is now linked from the talk: https://www.dropbox.com/s/knngq11tzdi0tdh/Alan%20Kay%20-%20The%20Power%20of%20the%20Context.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/knngq11tzdi0tdh/Alan%20Kay%20-%20T...
- justin66 9y agoThanks!
- alankay1 9y agoI asked whether you typed "The power of the context" not what you read "The power of context". Try to do just what I suggested and see what you get.
- xiaoma 9y agoWow! This is really illustrates a theme of the talk. I was completely blind to the 2nd "the", even the first two times I read your follow-up comment.
- alankay1 9y agoI'm glad you mentioned it. There's lots of evidence (even from the emails I've been getting) that most people might be skimming even sentences and guessing, rather than actually reading the words. This could partly be from the way they test reading in schools, and partly from the oral nature of most writed (e.g Twitter) on the web.
- ontouchstart 9y agoHere is the one on Alan's site: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf