Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf]

Re:Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf] by gjvc on Monday December 07, 2015 @03:59PM (#10692649)

research for this paper clearly wasn't very thorough.

this quote, which is key to the title is 10 years wide of the mark: ``"As the computer scientist and graphical interface pioneer Alan Kay likes to say, "the real computer revolution hasn't happened yet" (“The Computer Revolution,” 2007)" '' This title, as far as I can tell, first appeared in the 1997 OOPSLA talk of the same name https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY

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Re:Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf] by stcredzero on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:19PM (#10694140)

Besides Case and Hart's piece, we have a few other concrete examples of how computing could be a medium for understanding systems.

Only a few? There are a lot of them, actually. Games are starting to become these, particularly ones which encourage exploration and making, like Minecraft. I think we're only at the beginning of our exploration of the craft of emergent sandbox worlds. We're probably at an analogous stage in emergent sandbox worlds as the cartoon doodles found on Japanese temple beams from around 1200 years ago. One day, we'll get to the sandbox world equivalent of "The Watchmen."

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Re:Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf] by gozo on Monday December 07, 2015 @09:41PM (#10694426)

Eh what? It's a reference. The year has no other meaning than to account for when the referenced work was published, which was in 2007.

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Re:Bring on the Real Computer Revolution [pdf] by carussell on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:36PM (#10694201)

There's no rule that says the author must find Kay's talk to be more compelling than his VPRI memo, and it isn't evidence that the paper was poorly researched.

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