Living organisms can’t survive in their own waste products - Alan Kay

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A 2020 Nerdearla talk by Alan Kay, whose title states that living organisms cannot survive in their own waste products. HN people link it in discussions of digital pollution and the state of software.

HN people keep submitting Alan Kay's talks as worth the time, and link this one when software accumulating its own waste comes up.

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Relevant Alan Kay talk: ▶ this video