On 8/26/18, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas-2 wrote
Smalltalk keeps its curse of being so concern with the future that was disconnected from most of the present and so, giving the majority of us no bridge between our present and the Dynabook vision.
The idea of a bridge is an interesting one.
This idea needs to be further elaborated and then the gaps should be identified and so that bridges may be built. This should make it possible to use existing material from the curriculum.
One of the core Dynabook/Smalltalk principles is that the whole computer should be available for inspection and experimentation by the user. As Dan Ingalls said about operating systems "there shouldn't be one".
However, the rest of the world is stuck in an application/stovepipe model. While that may cripple and pigeonhole users' creativity, it's a reality that to be practically and generally useful the Dynabook would now have to deal/interact effectively with that whole mess while we're waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to our better way of doing things.
----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html