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Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)
Kenneth Friedman · 8 recommenders · 8 months
A full upload of Alan Kay's 1987 talk, with demos of several Smalltalk-era software systems and ideas about visual, kinesthetic and symbolic reasoning. It includes a Smalltalk program written by a 12-year-old and footage of the Rand tablet.
Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN recommends it as a favourite tech talk full of good ideas from forgotten 1980s software, worth watching in full.
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“The whole talk is well worth watching”
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