#Software is the most flexible idea in human history, but what we see in practice are mostly techniques that have not scaled well for many decades plus a mass of artifacts that could be compared to the «Pacific Gyre» of trillions of tons of plastic #waste. What happened? Where did really good ideas come from, and how can we start having them again and be able to do something with them? #nerdearla https://nerdear.la/session/living-organisms-cant-survive-in-their-own-waste-products/ Alan Kay Alan Kay likes to say: «No one owes more to his research community» (ARPA-IPTO in the 60s and Xerox Parc in the 70s). He is best known for pioneering personal and laptop computers, early research concerning children and computing, and the inventions of the now ubiquitous overlapping-window interface (GUI) and modern object-oriented programming. Recognition includes the ACM Turing Award, the NAE Draper Prize, and the Kyoto Prize.