Authorship Environments: In search of the “personal” in personal computing
summary
Argues computing needs a literacy shift not a productivity metaphor and claims a medium that lets people peel back layers yields genuine personal authorship; points to historical tools like Hypercard and Smalltalk and the surprising figure of four to six million stack authors as evidence of mass creative uptake; builds a web prototype called Simpletalk with parts, message passing, reactive properties and a Hypertalk-like scripting language and reports a working experimental system not a finished solution.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:25Personal Computing
- 2:32The Mind Analogy
- 5:02Literacy Analogy
- 6:34Origins of Writing
- 11:37Thinking the New
- 12:57The Core Question
- 13:46Historical Examples
- 17:44Takeaways
- 21:32SimpleTalk World
- 23:08Communication
- 24:16The Editor
- 25:22Summary
- 26:55Conclusion
- 33:41Lessons
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