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Alan Kay - Croquet, A Collaboration Architecture

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Croquet is a computer software architecture built from the ground up with a focus on deep collaboration between teams of users. It is a totally open, totally free, highly portable extension to the Squeak programming system, a modern variant of Smalltalk. Croquet is a complete development and delivery platform for doing real collaborative work. There is no distinction between the user environment and the development environment. Croquet is also a totally ad hoc multi-user network. It mirrors the current incarnation of the World Wide Web in many ways, in that any user has the ability to create and modify a "home world" and create links to any other such world. But in addition, any user, or group of users (assuming appropriate sharing privileges), can visit and work inside any other world on the net. Just as the World Wide Web has links between the web pages, Croquet allows fully dynamic connections between worlds via spatial portals. The key differences are that Croquet is a fully dynamic environment, everything is a collaborative object, and Croquet is fully modifiable at all times. Croquet is a joint project being developed by David A. Smith, Alan Kay, David P. Reed and Andreas Raab.

Alan Kay - Doing with Images Makes Symbols

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Alan Kay - Education in the Digital Age

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Alan Kay - Speaking at the American Film Institute

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This is an interesting keynote where Alan Kay talks about education and the important responsability of the film industry has in people believes.