Alan Kay’s talk at Creative Think seminar, July 20, 1982:
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Humans like fantasy and sharing: Fantasy fulfills a need for a simpler, more controllable world.
Sharing is important – we’re all communication junkies. We have an incredible bandwidth disparity (easy to take in, hard to give out); our devices have the reciprocal disparity (hard to take in, easy to give out)
Snobbery: Turn up your nose at good ideas. You must work on great ideas, not good ones. Appreciate mundanity: after all, a pencil is high technology. For creative presenting see here.