June 11, 2015

A clue emerges in the curious case of "Iterating Grace"

The trailblazing, first-generation computer programmer Alan Kay once said that you can divide the pioneers of personal computing into two camps: those who read and those who didn't. (I read about that in John Markoff's excellent "What the Dormouse Said.") Based on my experience of the heirs of those pioneers, I'd say Kay's rule of thumb holds. This week, however, a mysterious stunt has induced several of Silicon Valley's leading thought leaders […]






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