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In a world where people like Tim Berners Lee are given the Turing award and people like Alan Kay are ostracized and ignored Well, to be fair, Alan is a Turing
by david927 8y ago
In a world where people like Tim Berners Lee are given the Turing award and people like Alan Kay are ostracized and ignored
Well, to be fair, Alan is a Turing Award recipient since 2003. He's hardly ostracized and if he's ignored, it's because his cause is ignored.
He speaks of a broken present leading to a wider broken future. And to conceive that things are broken requires a deep understanding of the fundamentals of what you're looking at. Is you car currently horribly inefficient? You probably (like me) would have no idea. It would require knowing what every part does and what was it designed to do and why. That's a big ask. It requires a deeply fundamental understanding of it all.
And this -- this -- is what he's talking about in the lecture. He's gone from proselytizing the brokenness to preaching how to build the new mindset that can recognize it, which is the first and best shot at addressing it.