Alan Kay thinking ahead, as ever

There's a good interview with Alan Kay at CIO.com. 
Some gems for Infocult, such as this vision of one academic project as Third Life:

You can think of Croquet as a new way of doing an operating system, or as a layer over TCP/IP that automatically coordinates dynamic objects over the entire Internet in real time. This coordination is done efficiently enough so that people with just their computers, and no other central server, can work in the same virtual shared space in real time.

And this subtle recognition of the evolutionary power of computer gaming:

How much learning is a person willing to do to really learn how to use a computer? The answer, over the last 25 years of the commercialization of personal computing, is almost none. Nobody really wants to put in any amount of effort. The things that people have been willing to learn have tended to be like the media they grew up with, which have really simple user interfaces. (The big exception is video games.) [emphasis added]

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Comments

[Sean FitzGerald]

What about some interoperability between Second Life and Croquet to get Third Life moving along a bit - Croquet 2 Play » Black and White People?