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Pioneers: Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

Notion Podcast

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The Arpa Community

The vision of the arpa community, articulated by the guy who set it up in 19 62, was the destiny of computers are to become interactive, intellectual amplifiers for all humanity. And we need to do what anglbart dog engelbart called a we need not just to augment human beings, augmented human interlect, but we have to augment the collective of people. We've and one of the simplest things that isn't taught to children is scaling. Our brains can hardly handle it. So if i show you one picture, then another picture and aother picture, a half second art, you'll see the pictures individually. But if i just go up, right, so that

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