The reelyActive Blogs

Tag: Alan Kay

  • Anticipating the Social Dilemma

    Anticipating the Social Dilemma

    —

    by

    jeffyactive
    in

    Three days ago, on September 9th, 2020, Netflix released The Social Dilemma which “explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.” A recurring theme in the eye-opening documentary-drama hybrid is how technology is manipulated to disconnect “users” from their own reality, and to predict and…

  • Predict not what you can create

    Predict not what you can create

    —

    by

    jeffyactive
    in

    We’re all familiar with some variant of the adage: The best way to predict the future is to create it. Our first blog post of each of the past three years has been about prediction. This year will be different. What’s different this year is our move into a new office which will serve as…

  • Creating the next computing industry

    Creating the next computing industry

    —

    by

    jeffyactive
    in

    How often do you interact with computers in a day? Likely on more occasions than you can count or even recognise! Can you remember a time when you didn’t interact with computers on a daily basis? We’ve just added to our bibliography The Dream Machine, which recounts in splendid detail the history of interactive computing.…