Name: A powerful idea about ideas
Uploaded: 2008-03-04T10:09:00Z
Duration: 20 min 17 s
Description: With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can.

With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can.

Alan Kay: A powerful idea about ideas

A powerful idea about ideas

Exploring perception through art and science reveals how our realities are a form of hallucination, shaped by individual perspectives.

Empowering children with creative computing tools like the $100 laptop fosters a deeper grasp of concepts like variables and acceleration.

Simplicity in perception is an illusion shaped by our biases; real understanding comes from seeing things as we are, not as they are.