Fill in the Blank

Alan Kay Alan.Kay
Fri Apr 18 14:54:11 PDT 2003


By the way, one of the ways that I characterized the Dynabook years ago, was:

      "An instrument whose music is ideas"

Cheers,

Alan

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At 2:19 PM -0400 6/5/02, Anindita wrote:
>There's also the "standardized test way" of approaching an analogy by
>rephrasing it:
>
>A piano is an instrument (or tool) with which one makes music.
>A computer is an instrument (or tool) with which one makes. . .?
>
>I don't have something easy to fill in the blank since there are so many
>things which can fill that blank (music, art, applications), but it's
>another way of looking at it.  Music isn't in the tool, it's something
>that you can express or create with that tool.  Is there a word to
>summarize everything that can be expressed or created with a computer?
>
>Could one invent a word to encompass all of that?
>
>Anindita
>
>>         At 3:42 PM -0700 6/4/02, Edwin Pilobello wrote:
>>  >I'm writing up a new course description for the Fall term.  I need your
>>  >opinion on what fills the blank :
>>  >
>>  >"Music is not in the piano" as "(blank) is not in the computer"
>>  >
>>  >Should it be knowledge, learning, wisdom, whatever?
>>  >
>>  >For a course title, I've considered "Pre-Dynabook Lab" or something to
>>  >that effect.  I could use suggestions on the course title as well.
>>  >
>>  >Cheers,
>>  >Edwin Pilobello
>>  >Instructor, Saturday Academy
>>  >www.saturdayacademy.org
>>
>>
>>  --
>>


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