Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols (Full Version)

What this video covers

A full upload of Alan Kay's 1987 talk, with demos of several Smalltalk-era software systems and ideas about visual, kinesthetic and symbolic reasoning. It includes a Smalltalk program written by a 12-year-old and footage of the Rand tablet.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN recommends it as a favourite tech talk full of good ideas from forgotten 1980s software, worth watching in full.

Recommendation context

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“It's really a summary of several software systems with good ideas abound.”

“enjoy this fully”

“The whole talk is well worth watching”