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Alan Kay's amazing 1972 DynaBook paper

avisolo

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January 17, 2008, 03:44:33 PM

I just came across this amazingly insightful paper by genius Alan Kay detailing his vision of the 'DynaBook' something that took more than 30 years to finally becoming a reality in the form of the XO.

'A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages'
Alan C. Kay
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html
http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/Kay72a.pdf

Note: I like the PDF version of the DynaBook paper much better - It has permanent residence on my XO now!

Cheers,
Avi


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Mike Lee

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January 17, 2008, 04:58:25 PM

Avi, that is an excellent paper! I read it recently to prepare for meeting Alan in early March.

Mike


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#2 Re: Alan Kay's amazing 1972 DynaBook paper

RobotPrimate

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January 18, 2008, 06:45:44 AM

I've only glanced to the paper, and it seems amazing. The initial "story" of a future where two kids are with their dynabooks playing a spacewar game against each other, then wondering "what if we had a sun in here", and going through the various internal and external processes to achieve that is enchanting.