Alan Kay thinks the internet and TCP/IP is awesome - but the web is horrible. He's coming from the small-talk world where you have an incredibly powerful envir

Alan Kay thinks the internet and TCP/IP is awesome - but the web is horrible. He's coming from the small-talk world where you have an incredibly powerful environment that's self enclosed. He sees the browser and javascript as a step back to technology that was developed in the 1970s. The dom+javascript just isn't as powerful and so every attempt to improve shows some defect that a good plurality doesn't like and then they redo everything over again. We're basing everything on a language that was originally functional but was disguised as an OOP language because some executives thought JAVA was the next big thing. We're forcing a document object model to be a human interface model. We're stuck in this local maxima of power and functionality and all these attempts won't work because they're incremental. We need a quantum leap about what we think the human interface of the internet should be - and it shouldn't be the browser.