Alan Kay: Computer Applications: A Dynamic Medium for Creative Thought 1972 (VPRI 893)

Alan Kay's 1972 talk on computer applications as a dynamic medium for creative thought, archived by VPRI. It comes from the early days of personal computing, when Kay was developing his ideas about computers as a medium for learning.

HN people keep finding it for its vision of computing as a creative medium, and for a favourite passage about aiming for Sistine Chapel ceilings instead of test scores.

“That gives me goosebumps every time I think about it.”