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by dontchooseanick 1573 days ago
Alan kay has a brilliant [0] powerful idea about ideas :

- Complete the sentence "It would be stupid if in 20 years we didn't have ..." (flying cars ? direct brain interface ? biological self-healing computers ? pick one)

- Now imagine this 'obvious' invention and bring it back into the present (IIRC he was trying to invent the iPad and came up with the Apple II - and succeeded. IIRC he's involved in Object Oriented Programming, Apple II, TCP-IP and other revolutionary inventions)

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_kay_a_powerful_idea_about_ide...