> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kirby Urner > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:31 PM > To: edu-sig@python.org > Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] Python as Application
> There's nothing to stop academia from commenting upon, debating, field > testing Alan Kay's ideas. Just because he's sometimes behind a corporate > podium (Xerox, Atari, HP, Apple, Disney) instead of a university one > doesn't > impress me much, given the highly permeable membrane between private think > tanks, research companies, and graduate schools. And family entertainment companies and consumer electronic companies and fast food restaurant chains. And there are no lines to be drawn anywhere? Putting aside the question of whether my concerns are well founded or not, do you see anything to my sense of things that part of the disruption of disruptive technologies has been to move this line significantly beyond where it has once been drawn? Just curious. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
