G4LI Alan Kay

He’s the “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – guy

In 1968, talked with Seymore Papart and drew a sketch of kids working on laptops designing a versio of Spacewar.–40 years later, here we are
Big A.C.’s bangin quote “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Most people basically use computers and the internet to admire their own reflections (like a monket with a shiny brass microscope”

Anthropologists have noted about 300 human universals–some of these universal cultural characteristics seem to be genetic
Make a technological amplifier for any of these universals and you’ll become a billionaire
Non universals: progress, writing and reading, deductive abstract math, democracy, slow deep thinking, model based science, etc.
We’re naturally inclined to remember and case based reasoning is universal, but other types of thinking are not universal
Schools seem to be designed to deal with non-universals–the things we’re not wired for
It may take a genius to invent a non-universal, but then almost anyone can learn them and think in that way once discovered

Science: the process of developing and testing increasingly accurate models
Looking at school we see a phenomenon like Guitar Hero, tech glommed on with no real learning.
Rocky’s Boots–amazing old Atari Game
Robot Odyssey–another amazing old Atari Game
Games today are generally the wrong pace and about the wrong ideas–too much about universals, not what education should be about (non-universals)

One person asking questions says that games based on feedback loops instead of branching structures may be better for learning