{"id":12324,"date":"2013-04-02T13:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=12324"},"modified":"2013-04-02T13:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T18:22:16","slug":"alan-kay-the-dissing-the-ipad-and-the-dumbing-down-of-our-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=12324","title":{"rendered":"Alan Kay (the) &#8211; dissing the iPad and the dumbing down of our platforms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techland.time.com\/2013\/04\/02\/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay\/\">Link<\/a>. &quot;There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and\/or debilitating.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>and on corporate structures &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One way to think of all of these organizations is to realize that if they require a charismatic leader who will shoot people in the knees when needed, then the corporate organization and process is a failure. It means no group can come up with a good decision and make it stick just because it is a good idea. All the companies I\u2019ve worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent \u201cagriculture\u201d we could put the world back together and all would prosper.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. &quot;There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and\/or debilitating.&quot; and on corporate structures &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=12324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-12324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-pinboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}