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Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Fri Apr 20 16:13:00 UTC 2001


However, most ludicrous ideas are in fact: ludicrous.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 8:45 AM -0400 4/20/01, Stephan B. Wessels wrote:
>Les Tyrrell wrote:
>
>>  [...snip...]
>
>>  Objects were once considered ludicrous as well.
>
>>From "Dealers of Lightning", I read the following
>
>      At the first session the group piled on an unfortunate wild man from
>      that backwater, the University of Utah, named Alan Kay.  Kay had
>      stepped forth in a public session to pitch his vision of a computer
>      you could hold in your hand.  He had already coined a name for it:
>      "Dynabook," a notebook-shaped machine with a display screen and a
>      keyboard you could use to create, edit, and store a very personal
>      sort of literature, music and art.
>      "He was crazy," Wessler recalled.  "People greeted the whole idea
>      with disbelief and gave him a very tough time.  He painted this
>      picture of walking around with a computer under your arm, which we
>      all thought was completely ridiculous.
>
>  - Steve





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