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But there's only a single piano available at the moment.

• Glench 8y ago
  Haha, it's true. And there's no music in it. :) I see a lot of people focusing on the technology of Dynamicland but less the idea behind it, which is to make computation more of a medium that's continuous with our human world, not something that is trapped in tiny rectangles (hijacking our attention and crippling our bodies) where only people with developed symbolic representation skills can use it. The technology will change and be outdated in many years (like paper and pens have changed over time), but the medium will live on. Maybe my work on Laser Socks provides another example in this space: http://glench.com/LaserSocks/ http://glench.com/LaserSocks/
  • _mhr_ 8y ago
    My point was that it's difficult for an instrument designer to build a piano from scratch, even understanding the idea behind it, without opening one up and seeing how it works first. I understand the Alan Kay-esque hesitation to avoid having a community crystallize around what's perceived by its creators as just a prototype (referencing Kay's unhappiness with Smalltalk's relative lack of innovation over the decades).
• dmos62 8y ago
  I think, point is you can play music with most anything. E.g. solkattu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8JmhXn56Xo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8JmhXn56Xo