Working link http://www.papert.org/ http://www.papert.org/ Alan Kay on kids... Children need to learn how to use the 21st century, or there's a good chance th

Working link http://www.papert.org/ http://www.papert.org/ Alan Kay on kids... Children need to learn how to use the 21st century, or there's a good chance they will lose the 21st century. - Alan Kay (2016) Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent without a Surgeon General's warning on it. - Alan Kay With a good programming language and interface, one - even children - can create from scratch important simulations of complex non-linear systems that can help one's thinking about them. - Alan Kay (2016) Most of my ideas come in "waking dreams" (this is a state that most children indulge in readily, but it can be retained in a more or less useful way - I don't think you quite get into adulthood by retaining it, so it's a tradeoff). Main thing about ideas is that, however they come, most of them are mediocre down to bad - so steps have to be taken to deal with this major problem. - Alan Kay (2016) ... from my fortune clone, http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup