The analogy I use is pro cooking vs home cooking. We mostly only have professional cooking in the world of computing. What if we created tools and environments for everyone to become a home cook?

- What types of things might a home cook compute-r create, share, and remix?

- How can individual home cook compute-rs get more agency and freedom over their programs? What would that world look like?

- What if we could incorporate all the ways we think when we compute? Our amazing skills in touching, feeling, grasping, moving, etc that we evolved

Dynamicland (as I see it) is exploring & researching what that world look like by building increasingly more powerful and capable computing environments.

Thank you. I still don't exactly get it though. What's with the books on a shelf?

The books are the books that are recommended to read if you want to understand what they're doing and what prior work they're building on.

Bret mentioned computer literacy on the website. The books you can consider as "the curriculum" or "the theory" or what have you.

It might be more time-understanding efficient to watch the video if/when you have enough time to mull what they show in it over. I'm not sure I would have gotten a useful take on this particular thing in a set of short text summaries and I'm usually one very biased towards that kind of consumption.

Fair enough. I'll have to check it out later. Thank you for this perspective.

Related: "An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal" https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

Discussed here on HN at least twice:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22332629

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877423

"What if smart boards were actually good, could use the whole room, and track arbitrary physical objects?"

combined with

"What if you could create/edit a computer program like you rearrange furniture in a room?"

appears to be the sales pitch.

I would recommend watching the video though because there are few more pieces to it such as how it is programmed, etc.