I only watched the first 12 minutes or so (thus far!), but ... just wow! I originally took a course at the U of Mn where SICP was taught as intro to programmin

I only watched the first 12 minutes or so (thus far!), but ... just wow! I originally took a course at the U of Mn where SICP was taught as intro to programming and intro to OO programming (yep, OO programming with Scheme, I have a very lucid memory of some dude standing up and complaining about learning OO programming using Scheme vs. C++ (circa 1992 mind you) because "who will ever use Scheme in their programming career" and the professor (Dr. Maria Gini) had to ask the student to "keep an open mind" and all I could think was "hey, why not?"). This class was the most mind expanding class I've ever taken. I have read SICP three times since the early 90's and use it as a reference to this day (who else was re-reading the SICP streams chapter when Java 8 was recently announced? /raise). Anyway, I'm way off track here, but whatever. Having watched only the first 12 minutes of this video ... if Dr. Gini had this influence on me and now seeing this ... it's a huge step up! Listening/seeing Hal Abelson talk about programming and referencing the Egyptians ... I was just shaking my head, he's right to cross off computer science, it's not about that, it's bigger. I can't wait to watch the rest. And I'm going to make my team watch this. As much as I loved SICP as taught by Dr. Gini, this is way beyond her abilities as much as it pains me to say that.