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Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by random_2azkXJ on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:32AM (#10003241)
Philosophical question: What's when "running around in circles at high speed" becomes normal? Will then "normal" become "new"?
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Re:Alan Kay – Normal Considered Harmful (2009) [video] by agumonkey on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @10:28AM (#10003555)
I deeply believe that, as kay said, we are relative and will stop perceive things after a will, forgetting.. anything old will be new, even if it's normal, slow and ~sensical. Cycles. Or orbitals as I like to see them.
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