Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf]

http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/viewFile/703/617

by unimpressive • 11 years ago

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gjvc• 11 years ago

research for this paper clearly wasn't very thorough.

this quote, which is key to the title is 10 years wide of the mark: ``"As the computer scientist and graphical interface pioneer Alan Kay likes to say, "the real computer revolution hasn't happened yet" (“The Computer Revolution,” 2007)" '' This title, as far as I can tell, first appeared in the 1997 OOPSLA talk of the same name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY

stcredzero• 11 years ago

Besides Case and Hart's piece, we have a few other concrete examples of how computing could be a medium for understanding systems.

Only a few? There are a lot of them, actually. Games are starting to become these, particularly ones which encourage exploration and making, like Minecraft. I think we're only at the beginning of our exploration of the craft of emergent sandbox worlds. We're probably at an analogous stage in emergent sandbox worlds as the cartoon doodles found on Japanese temple beams from around 1200 years ago. One day, we'll get to the sandbox world equivalent of "The Watchmen."

carussell2• 11 years ago

There's no rule that says the author must find Kay's talk to be more compelling than his VPRI memo, and it isn't evidence that the paper was poorly researched.

gozo• 11 years ago

Eh what? It's a reference. The year has no other meaning than to account for when the referenced work was published, which was in 2007.

dang2• 11 years ago

Url changed from http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/down..., which initiates a file download.

carussell2• 11 years ago

The server won't send the Content-Disposition:"attachment[...]" header if you use this URL: http://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/intersect/article/view.... (For me, the abstract page was confusing, because you have to see the tiny "PDF" link and then click it to get to the actual article.)

dang2• 11 years ago

Ok thanks! Changed to that.

far33d• 11 years ago

It's kind of ironic that this article is presented as a PDF version of a journal paper.

agumonkey• 11 years ago

The dilemma of old proven tech.

-- sent over smtp

david-given• 11 years ago

HN has an SMTP interface?!

Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf]

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