[squeakland] Fwd: Fwd: The Dynabook and modern computing

[Yoshiki Ohshima]

It took me while to realize that I forwarded it to a wrong list...


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From: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing
To: Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>
Cc: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>


Ask him: how did the invention of agriculture influence "civilization"?

Or: what is ultimately more powerful, competition or cooperation?

Cheers,

Alan

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From: Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>
To: Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com>
Cc: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:47 AM
Subject: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing

Benoit is asking this.

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Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing
To: Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, squeakland list
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Thank you Bert for the link.

I am not sure to understand this metaphor with agriculture.

"One way to think of all of these organizations is to realize that if
they require a charismatic leader who will shoot people in the knees
when needed, then the corporate organization and process is a failure.
It means no group can come up with a good decision and make it stick
just because it is a good idea. All the companies I’ve worked for have
this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and
gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a
way to invent “agriculture” we could put the world back together and
all would prosper."

If someone could explain me what it means.

Thanks,
Benoit.


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> Time interviews Alan Kay:
>
> http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/
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> - Bert -
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