Bret Victor The Future of Programming

What this video covers

Bret Victor's DBX 2013 talk, delivered in the guise of a 1973 IBM engineer with an overhead projector. It surveys forgotten ideas from 1960s and early 70s computing and warns against assuming you know what you're doing.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN treats it as a classic, near-mandatory talk on how programming tools and paradigms stagnated and which older ideas deserve revival.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“Bret Victor is amazing.”

“Take a look and you will be amazed of how good (or revolutionary by our standards) some old technologies were.”

“I recommend everyone watch Bret Victor's classic "The Future of Programming”