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Related to inventing, reinventing, and adopting-the-already-existing: Alan Kay on inventing the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ https://www

• throwaway71271 4y ago
  Casey Muratori on "don't reinvent the wheel": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeqsn7JJWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQeqsn7JJWA
  • nz 4y ago
    This was quite good! The money quote: "It always bothers me when people say 'why reinvent the wheel', because the wheel is an _amazing_ invention. It is almost perfect -- or quite possibly perfect -- for what it does. It perfectly turns static friction into dynamic friction for moving objects. It is something that so elegant and beautiful, that if you were to ask why we would want to reinvent it, I would say _of course_ we do not want to reinvent it. It has worked for thousands of years, and has been unchanged for thousands of years. _Nothing_ we have developed in the past 30 years of game-development, is a wheel. In the future we will have so much more powerful tools for game development, that people will laugh at the things we did to make games. If we want _to get to_ a wheel, we need people that will _attempt to make the wheel_."
• panzerboiler 4y ago
  > The most "interesting thing" (happened in computing since the shut down of Xerox PARC) has been the contrast between appreciation/exploitation of the inventions/contributions vs. the almost complete lack of curiosity and interest in the processes that produced them. > Alan Kay