It took me while to realize that I forwarded it to a wrong list...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alan Kay alan.nemo@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@acm.org Cc: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de
Ask him: how did the invention of agriculture influence "civilization"?
Or: what is ultimately more powerful, competition or cooperation?
Cheers,
Alan
________________________________ From: Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org To: Alan Kay alan.nemo@yahoo.com Cc: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:47 AM Subject: Fwd: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing
Benoit is asking this.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benoît Fleury benoit.fleury@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [squeakland] The Dynabook and modern computing To: Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de Cc: IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, squeakland list squeakland@squeakland.org
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@freudenbergs.de wrote:
Time interviews Alan Kay:
http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan...
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