Bret victor alan kay biography

Out are people sitting behind screens.

Bret Victor “One of the greatest user interface design minds in the world today.” — Alan Kay “Design theory wizard, at the cutting edge of interface designs for programming, .

In is using the physical space as a computational system. Everyone in the illustration is using the same integrated computational device. The whole room is a computer. Thanks for reading James W. Phillips' Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This short blog is to a promote the video of the remarkable vision that Victor outlines and b provide a brief intro to it for people not familiar with it.

Surprisingly few people know the history of how personal computing happened. As Alan has noted, too often the amplifier has been turned down, not up.

Here’s Alan Kay. Alan Kay ran the lab at Xerox PARC where we got the desktop interface, so things like windows and icons, command menus.

Many including our 10 science team have tried to get Victor funding, but the kind of long-term, risk-tolerant funding is very hard to find. If you want to read some Alan Kay emails on this critical issue, Victor posted some on his website and I really recommend it. Realtalk is the name of the system. Cameras and projectors turn the physical space into a computational system.

You can alter a piece of paper, and have it in turn alter what is being projected in the physical space. People can work collaboratively using real physical objects, not via screens, and have projectors output the result of the computation.