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How to Invent the Future II - Stanford CS183F: Startup School

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What it is

Part two of Alan Kay's Stanford Startup School lecture on inventing the future. He draws on his time at Xerox PARC and elsewhere to discuss how to think about new technology and what makes ideas useful.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Frequently suggested in Ask HN threads on finding ideas, creativity and why incumbents like Xerox missed what they invented.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Alan Kay said something interesting in a set of lectures[1][2] he did a year or so ago.”

    Kay suggests basing product ideas on human universals

    mindcrime, 2018-08 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Why is there still guessing involved in “Make something people want”?”

  2. “Watch Alan Kay's "How to Invent The Future" talks from Stanford about this”

    Kay discusses PARC ideas and why Xerox could not exploit them all

    matt_s, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Other examples like “Kodak missed digitization” for presentations?”

  3. “A better version lecture Alan did for Ycombinator startups”

    Kay's lecture to YC startups on PARC

    morphle, 2024-03 · Recommendation · in “Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: alan kay, xerox parc, innovation, startups, computing history

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