Nice interview with Alan Kay, with nice links to Enlargeable and Knowledge Navigator videos. Here’s the segment where Alan describes why the iPad is not a Dyna book. The interesting thing about this question is that it is quite clear from the several early papers that it was an ancillary point for the Dyna book to be able to simulate all existing media in an editable/author able form in a highly portable networked (including wireless) form. The main point was for it to be able to qualitatively extend the notions of “reading, writing, sharing, publishing, etc. of ideas” literacy to include the “computer reading, writing, sharing, publishing of ideas” that is the computer’s special province.
For all media, the original intent was “symmetric authoring and consuming”. Isn't it crystal clear that this last and most important service is quite lacking in today’s computing for the general public? Apple with the iPad and iPhone goes even further and does not allow children to download an E toy made by another child somewhere in the world. This could not be farther from the original intentions of the entire ARPA-IPTO/PARC community in the ’60s and ’70s.
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