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.

Hacker News 读者推荐理由: HN recommends it as a favourite tech talk full of good ideas from forgotten 1980s software, worth watching in full.