Alan Kay
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- Dave Farley31 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| How to Build Tools That Shape Civilizations | Make with Notion 2025 | 2025-09-18 |
Claim: design choices in tools change culture not just tasks. Examples: Xerox Alto invents GUI, mouse and document paradigms; Doug Engelbart warns tools need… | ||
| Interview with Alan Kay | Rebase 2024 | 2024-10-20 |
Argues that a change of point of view is worth 80 IQ points, shows how Xerox PARC’s success came from integrated hardware and software (microcode, B5000… | ||
| Is Software Engineering Still an Oxymoron? | GOTO Copenhagen 2021 | 2021-11-08 |
Argues that software must adopt real-engineering practices: use CAD–SIM–FAB workflows, build system models that can be simulated before fabrication, and embed… | ||
| Living organisms can’t survive in their own waste products | Nerdearla 2020 | 2020-10-20 |
Argues that software is a growing pollution like the Pacific Gyre and blames short‑term tinkering for trillion‑ton scale waste, backing that with concrete… | ||
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