Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

1 of 387 comments (clear)

  1. sold it all off by CheshireDragon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Funny thing is Xerox sold a lot of their stuff to Apple in the 70s.
    Seems to me that Xerox got out of the market 40yrs ago and has no right to complain about its path now.

    --
    "That's right...I said it."