-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Kushal Das wrote:
> > https://vimeo.com/71278954 > > After you watched the talk, please share your views in the this > thread. This in a way, is really where I’m at, so I’m heavily in favour of the talk and what it proposes. I’m new, so everything is a possibility! I could do this, I could do that. And I’ve been questioning why we But there is also something to be said for slow iteration. I’m new to programming, but not new to computers. I started with a single user cli, and then used multi user clis and single and multi user guis and waited with bated breath for VR to take off in the early 90s and I’m waiting for my iPhone to recognise my mumbly accented English any day now. AR is the new hotness! AI apparently will kill us all :) Moreso than most others, I know how NT came about, I was one of the last users of VMS (not quite, but it makes for a good story). I might be the only one in the student group who got the Erlang reference :) And the reason why we’re probably still stuck with paradigms of the past are probably because, 1. Slow increments have been good enough 2. New innovations haven’t been worth the risk 3. Maybe, just maybe, getting these ideas to fruition is hard (or hard at scale!) and finally … 4. People and their biases and their deeply held beliefs :) But, like Bret proposes, we ought not to forget these ideas. And more importantly (as I see it at least), we need to be generating more of these. We should treat them like art. And Gaiman says, we should always “Make Good Art!”[1][2][3] (But where? We need patrons! Where is the modern day Arpa? Xerox? Bell? Ericcson? Our homegrown institutions (TIFR, BARC) are shells of their former selves. Instead we have a behemoth that prides itself on saying No![4] Despite, paradoxically, its own internal design lab having the freedom to do what it will) The message, I take away from this talk is that while Art does not make the wheels of daily life spin, it is *critically* important to survival. And yet, pie in the sky ideas are not the end all / be all either. The wheel has been with us for 6000 years. It still serves us admirably well :) There is room for both. [1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikAb-NYkseI [2]:http://chrisriddellblog.tumblr.com/post/154171358069/make-good-art-by-neil-gaiman [3]:http://chrisriddellblog.tumblr.com/post/154199951024/make-good-art-by-neil-gaiman [4]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAEPqUtra6E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJZiBmCAAoJELjPdZH1jbsuD2AP/0/tvB92lDPJF6h0Cd8dslRj 1wVWCDXrU4tDgez5QxpH7o/wvf6SGMo+2XcMh3R2BHkzsXThrLEp/oHqQ5qqXEmG cu/dmioiZLN3sZvOQokyIQ9d2Cryavn1qfkkf5gSGvMYPwZlEtS2h6y5RmHaT0is SONpc0szJBKGFf/QuG+ux1XK6C40RzwgFEQ4UFMzReAnYgYmWGOaqS9Gq3XxH00D /8ZTPRy46xMhfzjWYn+Cfyh4/6ZFaUrcKE2M5SQXzGlZC2YmwcLSz+xEW6uz/sup gbVTZorPwiiPzTyRy3FxVZ6hbuOMcrzqcucuCWswRu6kAX/ULd1DesCxL5ErRFEc LnG/agxVzlm02yHhCA8zq4jE6VA0hgJi9NWIlkbwBegQBCJyQVwHuWD6IWLV088Y Et27z498Z+bEC12hzsBhJgWELXswnieor7t7qQsmGVTuENDyNN+T196jj6O6rnF0 HSkroXxuCkAsCo/Bv9ADGf2nqz0CskRW+6qvR7pJ5mkXD5C0ew3qSxPMT6RWfoIH vvss7FAoisKYTB/MjlMcyun2AzWaYCcFGhhHcPpSpK61jgUtDFLNw7wdEXIE3jli fVQS11y0oSvbienDP0u7hNYMCa6cOYVHIrIfn5wt/JlZ8wFy+ecnLKZnfx2Uz0SL ZYer0Q6awXQgghQLlwmK =UNXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dgplug.org/listinfo.cgi/users-dgplug.org
