Alan Kay, "The Dynabook—Past Present and Future"

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Alan Kay lecture on the Dynabook traces personal computing vision and object-oriented programming philosophy across decades. Teaches historical development of graphical interfaces and computing education.

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A 112-minute video from Computer History Museum: “Alan Kay, "The Dynabook—Past Present and Future"”.

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Part of ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations

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