So what will computing be in a hundred years? Will we still painstakingly construct systems with a keyboard interface one letter at a time ? And what systems will we use ? And for what ? Will we use computers for slashing virtual fruits and post images of our breakfast on Facebook version 1000,2 ?
What are the future man using computers for ? Karl On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kevin > > At some point I'll gather enough brain cells to do the needed edits and > get the report on the Viewpoints server. > > Dan Amelang is in the process of writing his thesis on Nile, and we will > probably put Nile out in a more general form after that. (A nice project > would be to do Nile in the Chrome "Native Client" to get a usable speedy > and very compact graphics system for web based systems.) > > Yoshiki's K-Script has been experimentally implemented on top of > Javascript, and we've been learning a lot about this variant of > stream-based FRP as it is able to work within "someone else's > implementation of a language". > > A lot of work on the "cooperating solvers" part of STEPS is going on (this > was an add-on that wasn't really in the scope of the original proposal). > > We are taking another pass at the "interoperating alien modules" problem > that was part of the original proposal, but that we never really got around > to trying to make progress on it. > > And, as has been our pattern in the past, we have often alternated > end-user systems (especially including children) with the "deep systems" > projects, and we are currently pondering this 50+ year old problem again. > > A fair amount of time is being put into "problem finding" (the basic idea > is that initially trying to manifest "visions" of desirable future states > is better than going directly into trying to state new goals -- good > visions will often help "problem finding" which can then be the context for > picking actual goals). > > And most of my time right now is being spent in extending environments for > research. > > Cheers > > Alan > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Kevin Driedger <[email protected]> > *To:* Alan Kay <[email protected]>; Fundamentals of New Computing < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, September 2, 2013 2:41 PM > *Subject:* Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned? > > Alan, > > Can you give us any more details or direction on these research projects? > > > ]{evin ])riedger > > > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Dan > > It actually got written and given to NSF and approved, etc., a while ago, > but needs a little more work before posting on the VPRI site. > > Meanwhile we've been consumed by setting up a number of additional, and > wider scale, research projects, and this has occupied pretty much all of my > time for the last 5-6 months. > > Cheers, > > Alan > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Dan Melchione <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, September 2, 2013 10:40 AM > *Subject:* [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned? > > Haven't seen much regarding this for a while. Has it been been abandoned > or put at such low priority that it is effectively abandoned? > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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