Bret Victor's DBX 2013 talk, delivered in the guise of a 1973 IBM engineer with an overhead projector. It surveys forgotten ideas from 1960s and early 70s computing and warns against assuming you know what you're doing.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN treats it as a classic, near-mandatory talk on how programming tools and paradigms stagnated and which older ideas deserve revival.

“Take a look and you will be amazed of how good (or revolutionary by our standards) some old technologies were.”

View the original HN discussion

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