One of my all time favorite talks of AKay's, given in 2015. Not my own video, though it hasn't been on RU-vid before. Original location here: global.sap.com/...
Thanks for sharing! Alan Kay brings lots of great insights about innovation and invention, and its exponentially difference in value creation of wealth and social impact
Thank you a lot for sharing this!!! For people being far away from people like Alan and surrounded by very different kind of people these interviews and thoughts of Alan Kay is like a fresh air and really enriching. Thank you very much. Having possibility to listen people like this really makes a difference and .I am really grateful to you for your efforts to make it available.
Lot of commentaries between this and Geoffrey West's work on Growth, i.e. www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_of_cities_and_corporations
Yes; to have been able, in just 50 minutes, to make a convincing and justified case for questioning 5000 years of entrenched nonsense, is a remarkable accomplishment, even if it went right over entrenched Zack's head
Why do you have to insult me by insinuating this went "right over entrenched Zack's head"? Do you agree with my summary of what he said or not? Why is it "a remarkable accomplishment" to talk about something for 50 minutes that could have been stated in far less time?
I think Kay's achievements speak for themselves, regardless if he took 50 minutes to say something. Also, you could think of that challenging the status quo as the theme, which every speech has...If they did not they would be rambling and incoherent..and he stuck to that quite well
i don't agree with your summary, Zack. this was targeted to VPs and CIOs who needed actionable plans for innovation rather than just the word "innovate", because as he said, it's impossible for people who can't see past their noses to even start thinking about how to innovate. of course, i personally think his words were wasted on capitalist minds...
Sorry but too little substance in this talk and it's all over the place. Rich hickey's "Simplicity matters" is like a million times better and it's half the length.
I don't want to suggest that Xerox parc didn't innovate, but the inventions conceived there at the time were the low hanging fruit, and it's easy to suggest that something is missing, but Alan does not say what it is...
If inventing the things he mentions were low hanging fruit(Not just inventing but making fully functional prototypes, which Gates and Jobs both stole to create macintosh and windows), who at the time was mining high hanging fruit, and what was the high hanging ftuit? I cannot imagine anything in tech higher hanging than GUI interfaces and the control command languages they were coming up with..would love to know who was mining "high hanging fruit" at the same time(70s), and what fruit that was
