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soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 11, 2026
The Whole Room Is the Fantasy Amplifier
I have been thinking about Alan Kay’s idea of the fantasy amplifier, partly because I have begun to suspect that the thing he was imagining has arrived. Or perhaps: it is arriving. Howard Rheingold, writing about Kay in Tools for Thought, described his ambition as building a “fantasy amplifier”, a dynamic medium for creative thought...
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soulcruzer
soulcruzerAug 10, 2026
Reading Tools for Thought, I keep coming back …
Reading Tools for Thought, I keep coming back to Alan Kay’s idea of the computer as a fantasy amplifier. It’s such a different way of answering the question: what are computers for? Not productivity machines. Not devices for writing more emails, managing calendars, filling in spreadsheets or shaving another twenty minutes off the working day....
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