3 ms·
Yeah! Also I think Alan Kay's wife (Bonnie MacBird) was the writer for the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_MacBird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon
by skadamat 5y ago
Yeah! Also I think Alan Kay's wife (Bonnie MacBird) was the writer for the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_MacBird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_MacBird
- bitwize 5y agoYep. They met and fell in love while working on Tron. Doubtless Bonnie thought that MCP Alan was talking about made a cool villain name. Also, Tron's programmer Alan Bradley is named after Kay. The major conflict in Tron is also themed after Kay's thought: Whom should a computer serve, its users or the bureaucracy that administrates it? Kay believed in user-centric computing, and was profoundly influential in making that happen, but it's clear that this struggle still goes on today.