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Alan Kay Says iPad Betrays Xerox PARC Vision

Posted by timothy on from the and-so-it-goes dept.

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."

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  1. News Flash by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tonight's top story: An old guy complains that the future doesn't match what his vision of the future was back when he was young.

    This, and the rest of the news, coming up at 11.

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  2. Re:Fanboy attack by marcello_dl · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is like saying: "riding an unicycle is easy, because you can put its wheel into a bike and ride that one instead".

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