"Authorship Environments: In search of the “personal” in personal computing" by Eric Gade

To add to the list: - 'Authorship Environments: In search of the “personal” in personal computing' Strangeloop talk (▶ this video) If we are to make computing personal, as any medium of thought needs to be, we'll need a new framework, a new way to think about computing, We'll need to shed the ingrained assumptions. We'll need a new language: no more "users" and "programmers." I've never heard a good definition of either but these terms are too loaded and too corrosive today.* I am not claiming this is the next big thing, but if we are to move to the sort of goals described in a number of the projects in the list, something like this will have to happen. * Best one I know is of programming: blindly manipulating symbols in hope of an outcome.

> So, what's to stop someone today from making a modern hypercard clone? One issue is the HyperCard fit holistically with Macs of the 80s and early 90s. A straight clone doesn't quite make sense today -- perhaps we need slightly different metaphors. Last year I was a part of a research team that explored some of this. We ended up producing a system called Simpletalk [1], which is essentially a web-based system and scripting language inspired by Smalltalk and Hypercard. If you are interested, I also gave a talk [2] on some of the motivations and design behind the system. [1] link [2] ▶ this video