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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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