"I want you to have a book that is 8.5x11, but that has this 7-foot area rug... so you then have the satisfaction of lying on the floor with this book, because there's no other way to read it, and transporting yourself, getting yourself into it."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nbmnx0hTPjA…
Celebrate this Dec 9th #motherofalldemos day tripping around *inside* Doug Engelbart's legendary demo http://bit.ly/2ArrN7y - a special tribute to Doug + team from Bret Victor
Ned worked 15 years (!) from conception to publishing the first experimental validation of DNA folding. I asked him once if he ever had any doubts during that time.“Nope. It was obviously going to work.”
The current way of publishing and reading quantitative research makes no sense.
The model should be right there in the text.
As Bret Victor did it: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#media…
It will take time to get to this project with our small team, but one day Our World in data will do that.
Richard Hamming's life was a study in the importance of having a vision of greatness––and being relentless in the pursuit of it.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, with a foreword by
John McCarthy 10/24/2011
Douglas Engelbart 7/2/2013
Marvin Minsky 1/24/2016
Wes Clark 2/22/2016
Seymour Papert 7/31/2016
Jay Forrester 11/16/2016
Bob Taylor 4/13/2017
Chuck Thacker 6/12/2017
Larry Roberts 12/26/2018
Fernando Corbató 7/12/2019
Larry Tesler 2/17/2020
9. Human development is slow. Experimentation requires longer time horizons than most investment vehicles permit. To a first approximation, you can probably ignore research or reform efforts which don't have built into their structure deep acknowledgment of this.