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Alan Kay:Doing with Images Makes Symbols (The History of Graphical Interface)

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I found this video very useful, especially the part about learning (tennis playing) …. It is something what Heidegger (hammer), Ihde (chalk), Merleau-Ponty (gun) and many others argued for…. [Kay, tennis racket]

Alan Kay is the guy who claimed to be the first developer of a graphical interface (GUI)…. (http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Kay.html)

More about Alan Kay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay

Written by ArtGirl

April 23, 2008 at 11:04 am

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