Bob Taylor passed away yesterday:
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Fascinating HN tidbit on how Taylor taught people at PARC to disagree. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=141182
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And a great comment on the quote (& context and correction) from Alan Kay, in another thread: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=141151
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Kay on Taylor and PARC, more broadly:
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This kind of situation makes me very grateful for HN et al. So much harder to access this casual expert knowledge in prior social systems!
And yet this is still the surprising exception. We have a long way to go.