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More from Alan Kay
A lot of people will seek to make information prosthetics, but journalists
need to think about amplification. - 1995
~~~It's
hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online,
then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing
- which is what I think is what we have - gives us 1984. - 1995
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I was thinking about ecological computing ... Pretty soon we're
going to have to grow software, and we should start learning how
to do that. We should have software that won't break when something
is wrong with it. As a friend of mine once said, if you try to make
a Boeing 747 six inches longer, you have a problem; but a baby gets
six inches longer 10 or more times during its life, and you never
have to take it down for maintenance. - 1995
~~~Another way to think
of roadkill on the information highway will be the billions who
will forget there are offramps to destinations other than Hollywood,
Las Vegas, the local bingo parlor, or shiny beads from a shopping
network. Not couch potatoes but mouse potatoes! It's not the wonderful
things they could do with new media, it's what they will be convinced
they should do. This is a new tragedy in the making. No democracy
that is less than 10 percent literate can survive in the driving
forces of society. Television should be the last mass communications
medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon
general's warning! - 1995
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