"People don’t understand what computing is about" —Alan Kay, one of the earliest inventors of mobile computing devices, who is still around and snarkily commenting on things:
Alan Kay on how people misunderstand computing
5 tweets · July 2020 · 77 likes · 15 retweets · read on Twitter
Source: this interview on @FastCompany (@micahtredding's thread below is great 👇 and so is the whole article)
@Conaw the whole thing is relevant to @RoamResearch—particularly this excerpt: > In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, “Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.”
Also, related to the whole "People don’t understand what computing is about" thing is this epic article by @frank_chimero which basically says "people don't understand what screens are for" frankchimero.com/blog/2013/what…
> If you want to live in the 21st century, you’d better embody it. You can’t teach it in a classroom. —AK riffing on Maria Montessori As Victor Wooten says "You can only teach yourself... I can teach you nothing. I can only *show* you things."