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Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision
harrymcc writes "Over at TIME.com, we've published David Greelish's interview with Alan Kay, the famously quotable visionary whose Dynabook proposal has provided much of the inspiration for advances in mobile computing for over 40 years now. Kay talks about his work, laments that the computer has failed to live up to its potential as an educational tool, and says that the iPad betrays the vision that he and others created at Xerox PARC and elsewhere in the 1970s."
Tablets are a tool for consumption not production or creativity. They can be used for it in the same way I can stir my coffee with a pen.
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Doesn't the fact that you need a developer 'license' tweak something in your mind about the DynaBook ideals?
Who gives a damn about "DynaBook ideals"? I mean seriously, who gives a damn? It's similar to "free" software: A few people are strongly for it, the huge majority doesn't care one bit, and very few people are against it, because who cares? But because of this distribution, the people who care and open their mouths are all for it, which then gives a totally wrong impression of the actual situation. And the real situation is that very, very few people care. And my grandchildren as well as my computer-phobic friends and relatives are very happy indeed with their iPads, and they don't care about "DynaBook ideals" one bit. Alan Kaye can play with whatever he wants to play with according to them, but he better not dare taking their iPads away.