I remember reading about Alan Kay in my AP Java computer science textbook. His vision was that every child would do computer programming in object-oriented programming languages like Smalltalk. Nowadays we know much better, that never panned out. Nowadays, every child does the typical consumer computing activities on computers, computer programming not included.
Ah, so what does Wikipedia have to say about this failed visionary insight? Well, well, it has the clever Ray Kurzweil way of backing up the vision with 20/20 hindsight. Yeah, although modern children as of 2019 have never got around to computer programming, they have successfully played around on tablet computers, just in line with Alan Kay’s vision of the Dynabook tablet-like computer device in educational computing. Modern non-technical early education school teachers can easily push the tablets into their classroom, without the need of a specialized computer teacher to drive anything inside the classroom. So these computers are in fact “educational” since they are being used by schools.
Also, Alan Kay has similarly provided updated critique and details on his own visions in light of these new facts.
To be fair, my statement that came out of my Java book could have easily been a misinterpretation of Alan Kay’s original vision.
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