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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....
AIAlan Kay
soulcruzer
soulcruzerJul 27, 2026
Rheingold’s Tools for Thought has me asking an …
Rheingold's Tools for Thought has me asking an old question again:: what are computers for? For a long time the answer seemed settled. Computers were calculators, then office machines, then portals into a giant shopping centre with a comment section. We learned to treat them as appliances that happened to demand more and more of...
AIHoward Rheingold

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