Do you think it is possible that Alan Kay knew what impact the Dynabook would have on human culture?
It seems to me that Alan Kay knew exactly what he was doing and what the impact would be.
"What would happen in a world in which everyone had a Dynabook?"
Kay goes into detail about how people of different professions could benefit from the use of a 'tool' that has the capability to allow "any owner to mold and channel its power to his own needs, then a new kind of medium would have been created: a metamedium, whose contents would be a range of already-existing and not-yet-invented media."
He had the foresight to know that a graphical user interface was necessary for the computer to take off globally and that new mediums were going to be invented that would facilitate his creation.
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