"Normal" Considered Harmful by Alan Kay (asx video) (media.cs.uiuc.edu)

In many ways the most important eye opener lecture I ever saw, and I very rarely say such things. This talk sums up a why most of the things done in computing (like web programming) is not done well. It starts by looking at what humans are. If only less than 1% of us is intrinsically interested and looking for really new ideas, and also must have ways of discarding the mediocre to bad new ideas, it becomes clear why it is so hard to have new ideas that change our outlook (epistemological stance). In computing today that is the reason we have so little new ideas, Still this talk is the first step in realizing what to avoid when having new ideas. This approach did yield me some new ideas like message passing systems, scalability like the internet and massive parallel processing to solve the manycore dilemma we are faced with today.<p>View with VLC. Better to download first