A Vision of New Age with Alan Kay 1988 (VPRI 0224)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)
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A 1988 presentation by Alan Kay, "A Vision of a New Age", on where computing and media were heading, archived in the VPRI series. It includes predictions of media-driven websites well before they became common.

HN people share it as evidence that Kay saw the web and rich digital media coming decades early.

“This will probably blow your mind”
HCI pioneers & visionary demosGUI history
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@gambler2019 · in “Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)”
>Steve saw the internet coming in 1985. Wow. This will probably blow your mind: ▶ this video 1988 presentation where Alan Kay confidently predicts media-driven websites that became the norm only around 2010. He also talks about virtual reality and real-time 3d graphics. We still haven't caught up with his vision for exploratory interactive computing and user-driven simulations. The fact that computers can/will/should be networked and also used for interactive collaboration rather than just raw number crunching was evident to some people as far as 1962. Maybe even earlier. link Augmenting Human Intellect is not an easy read, but it is well worth it, and not just as a matter of historic curiosity.
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@maltelau2019 · in “Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)”
> ▶ this video > 1988 presentation where Alan Kay [...] I'm getting no sound throughout the whole video, and youtube lists it as having music from a particular Debussy recording, which is then also unavailable (link) Muting the sound is the usual response to streams and videos that plays audio that someone claims to own the rights to. Is this another casualty to how easy youtube makes it for copyright trolls (or people indistinguishable to copyright trolls)?
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